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  "thread": {
    "id": 2983,
    "subject": "fuligin, fulgurator",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2002-02-23T03:57:38+00:00",
    "last": "2002-02-23T03:57:38+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0202-211@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Andre-Driussi",
        "address": "mantis at siriusfiction.com"
      },
      "date": "2002-02-23T03:57:38+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) fuligin, fulgurator",
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          "text": "Steve wrote:\nI was looking up the word 'fuligin' in the dictionary the other day.  I was\ninterested to see that sitting right in front of the 'fuligin'-like words\n(namely, 'fuliginated', meaning 'of a sooty color or appearance'; 'fuligo',\nmeaning 'soot'; and 'fuliginous', meaning 'blackened with soot'), there were\nwere several similar sounding words derived from a root with a quite\ndifferent meaning.  These were 'fulgurate' ('emit flashes like lightening');\n'fulguration' ('the action of lightening'; 'in assaying, a brightening in\nthe appearance of a molten metal'); 'fulgurous' ('resembling, full of or\ncharged with lightening')."
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          "text": "FWIW, and it may add to your argument, Wolfe does use the word \"fulgurator\"\nin chapter 7 of SHADOW.\n\n=mantis="
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