Fulgural

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or related to lightning, particularly (historical) in reference to its use in divination. uncommon

    "The Fulgural Books were an Etruscan guide to understanding the will of the gods through their supposed messages in lightning."

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"The Fulgural Books were an Etruscan guide to understanding the will of the gods through their supposed messages in lightning."

Etymology

From Latin fulguralis, from fulgur (“lightning”) + -ālis (“-al: forming adjectives”), from Proto-Italic reconstructed as *folgos and related to the idea of flashing or lightening.

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