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Scintillate

verb

(past & past part. scintillated; pres. part. scintillating)

Give off.

Reflect brightly. Synonyms: coruscate, sparkle.

Emit or reflect light in a flickering manner. Synonyms: twinkle, winkle.

Physics: fluoresce momentarily when struck by a charged particle or high-energy photon.

Be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity. Synonyms: coruscate, sparkle. "A scintillating conversation" , "His playing coruscated throughout the concert hall"

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"Scintillate" Quotes from Famous Books

... play continued, without further sparks, or only such as appeared to scintillate from the eyes of the combatants. Then came a counter-thrust, quickly followed by a counter parry, with no ...

— The Free Lances - A Romance of the Mexican Valley • Mayne Reid

... first-magnitudes had done, while the larger worlds were points of indescribable glory and colour. Aldebaran was a spot of blood-red fire, and Sirius condensed to one point the light of innumerable sapphires. And they shone steadily: they did not scintillate, they were calmly glorious. My impressions had an adamantine hardness and brightness: there was no blurring softness, no atmosphere, nothing but infinite darkness set with the myriads of these acute and brilliant points and specks of light. Presently, ...

— The Country of the Blind, And Other Stories • H. G. Wells

... pleading de case of Marbury vs. Madison, what did he say? What did he say? Scintillate, scintillate, Globule orific. Fain would I fathom thy nature's specific. Loftily poised in ether capacious, strongly resembling a gem carbonacious. What did Abraham Lincoln say about mule-stealing? When torrid Phoebut ...

— Three Plays - Lawing and Jawing; Forty Yards; Woofing • Zora Neale Hurston

... slim and trim and bound in blue; Its leaves are crisp and edged with gold; Its words are simple, stalwart too; Its thoughts are tender, wise and bold. Its pages scintillate with wit; Its pathos clutches at my throat: Oh, how I love each line of it! That Little Book ...

— Ballads of a Bohemian • Robert W. Service

... and to give enjoyment. Merely to look at you would make the dullest set of people in London wake up and scintillate. Don't tell me you're not looking forward to it, because I ...

— In the Wilderness • Robert Hichens

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