Meaning of corusco | Babel Free

Definitions

1. to shake, brandish, wave, move about
   conjugation-1, transitive
2. to shake, vibrate, flit
   conjugation-1, intransitive, uncommon
3. to strike or flash lightning
   conjugation-1, impersonal, personal, rare
4. to flash, coruscate, gleam
   conjugation-1, figuratively

Examples

“Haec memorāns prima infēnsum vī corripit ignem sublatāque procul dextrā cōnīxa coruscat”

Mentioning these, she first grasped the deadly fire with violence and with the right hand raised high, brandishes it with effort and throws.

“Exundant dīvīsō vertice flammae”

The flames rush up with a bifurcated top and wave their tips with intermittent light.

“Namque et sīdereīs cycnus secat aethera pinnīs, dōnātus caelō, nōn clārō lūcidus astrō,”

For the swan splits the aether with starry wings too, gifted to the sky, not luminous with a bright star, but still brandishing its shining mouth and long neck.

“354 CE – 450 CE, Saint Augustine, Enarratio in Psalmos 121.9”

They carried the Lord with them, and the Lord brandished miracles, thundered terrors, rained consolations regarding them.

“[…] satiātī agnī lūdunt blandēque coruscant.”

The sated lambs play and gently thrust with the horns.

“Tum trepidae inter sē coeunt pinnīsque coruscant […]”

Then [the bees] come together in a hurry and vibrate with their wings.

“Mōtae sonuēre colubrae, parsque iacent umerīs, pars circum pectora lapsae”

The disturbed snakes hissed and a part sit on the shoulders, a part, fallen down to the breast, give hisses and vomit blood and flutter with their tongues.

“Scinduntur tunicae sartae modo, longa coruscat serrācō veniente abiēs, atque altera pīnum”

Tunics just mended are torn, the long pine log shakes as its waggon nears, and another cart is carrying a pine tree.

“3rd C. CE, Tertullian, De pudicitia 14, in Quinti Septimi Florentis Tertulliani opera (volume I), August Reifferscheid and Georg Wissowa, 1890, pages 248–249”

And so we see in this place the apostle's divided severity against someone haughty and someone unchaste, equipped with a rod against one and with words against the other. The rod, which he was threatening, the words, which he was saying; the former still shaking, the latter immediately fulminating, one with which he was rattling, one with which he was condemning.

“220 BCE – c. 130 BCE, Marcus Pacuvius, Tragic fragments 45.5”

Fire strikes amongst clouds, the sky trembles with thunder.

“[…] et esse tonitrua inpactōrum ignium plāgās ideōque prōtinus coruscāre igneās nūbium rīmās.”

[And I agree that] thunderclaps are the blows of fires collided and that for that reason the fiery cracks of clouds flash lightning at once.

“Quippe ubi nūbēs adflīctrīx ignem, ut ignifera saxa adtrīta inter sē, dat, obtutus velōcius inlūstriōra contingit, audītus, dum ad aurēs venit, sēriōre sēnsū concipitur; ita prius coruscāre caelum crēditur et mox tonāre.”

Of course when a striking cloud emits fire, like flintstones rubbed against one another, the sight comes to the eyes faster; the sound is felt with tardier sense, until it reaches the ears; thus the sky is believed to flash lightning first and thunder soon after.

“4th C. CE, Saint Jerome, Vulgate Ezekiel 1:14”

And the beings went and came, like a striking lightning.

“Sed nē forsitan timendum sōlummodo putārēs Dominum cum tonat, cum coruscat, cum terrās tremōre concutit, cum crīminōsīs minātur interitum, addidit, quī ambulant in viīs eius, ut non sōlum suspendāmur ab āctibus prāvīs, vērum etiam in fidē probēmur ambulāre rēctissimā.”

But so that you may not consider the Lord to be feared only when He thunders, when He strikes lightning, when he threatens the sinful with death, he added “that walketh in his ways”, so that we may not only doubt in the wrong acts, but that we may also be shown worthy in faith to walk on the straightest way.

“Collūcent calvī: calvōrum cassida candet,”

The bald are bright: their pate shines, glowing reddish it gleams like the brilliant fullness of the sky.

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