Wyclif (Mark vii. 27).
2. To accomplish or carry into effect, as an intention, promise, or prophecy, a desire, prayer, or requirement, etc.; to complete by performance; to answer the requisitions of; to bring to pass, as a purpose or design; to effectuate.
He will, fulfill the desire of them fear him.
Ps. cxlv. 199.
Here Nature seems fulfilled in all her ends.
Milton.
Servants must their masters' minds fulfill.
Shak.
Ful*fill"er (?), n. One who fulfills. South.
Ful*fill"ment (?), n. [Written also fulfilment.]
1. The act of fulfilling; accomplishment; completion; as, the fulfillment of prophecy.
2. Execution; performance; as, the fulfillment of a promise.
Fulgen*cy (?), n. [See fulgent.] Brightness; splendor; glitter; effulgence. Bailey.
Ful"gent (?), a. [L. fulgens, -entis, p. pr. of fulgere to flash, glitter, shine, akin to Gr. &?; to burn. See Phlox, Flagrant.] Exquisitely bright; shining; dazzling; effulgent.
Other Thracians . . . fulgent morions wore.
Glower.
Ful"gent*ly, adv. Dazzlingly; glitteringly.
Ful"gid (?), a. [L. fulgidus. See Fulgent.] Shining; glittering; dazzling. [R.] Pope.
Ful*gid"i*ty (?), n. Splendor; resplendence; effulgence. [R.] Bailey.
Ful"gor (?), n. [L. fulgor, fr. fulgere to shine.] Dazzling brightness; splendor. [R.] Sir T. Browne.
Ful"gu*rant (?) a. [L. fulgurans, p. pr. of fulgurare.] Lightening. [R.] Dr. H. More.
||Ful"gu*ra"ta (?), n. [NL.] (Electricity) A spectro-electric tube in ||which the decomposition of a liquid by the passage of an electric ||spark is observed. Knight.
Ful"gu*rate (?), v. i. [L. fulguratus, p. p. of fulgurare to flash, fr. fulgur lightning, fr. fulgere to shine. See Fulgent.] To flash as lightning. [R.]
Ful"gu*ra`ting (?), a. (Med.) Resembling lightning; -- used to describe intense lancinating pains accompanying locomotor ataxy.
Ful"gu*ra`tion (?), n. [L. fulguratio: cf. F. fulguration.] 1. The act of lightening. [R.] Donne.
2. (Assaying) The sudden brightening of a fused globule of gold or silver, when the last film of the oxide of lead or copper leaves its surface; -- also called blick.
A phenomenon called, by the old chemists, fulguration.
Ure.
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