# fuligin, fulgurator

*The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 23 Feb 2002*

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### Michael Andre-Driussi
*23 Feb 2002, 03:57*

> Steve wrote:
> I was looking up the word 'fuligin' in the dictionary the other day.  I was
> interested to see that sitting right in front of the 'fuligin'-like words
> (namely, 'fuliginated', meaning 'of a sooty color or appearance'; 'fuligo',
> meaning 'soot'; and 'fuliginous', meaning 'blackened with soot'), there were
> were several similar sounding words derived from a root with a quite
> different meaning.  These were 'fulgurate' ('emit flashes like lightening');
> 'fulguration' ('the action of lightening'; 'in assaying, a brightening in
> the appearance of a molten metal'); 'fulgurous' ('resembling, full of or
> charged with lightening').

FWIW, and it may add to your argument, Wolfe does use the word "fulgurator"
in chapter 7 of SHADOW.

=mantis=

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