a. Also 5 coroscant, 6–7 corruscant. [ad. L. coruscānt-em, pr. pple. of coruscāre to flash, gleam: see CORUSCATE.] Glittering, sparkling, gleaming.
1592. R. D., Hypnerotomachia, 79. A corruscant rounde Rubie.
1593. Nashe, Christ’s T., 27 b. A Commet most coruscant.
1677. Sir T. Herbert, Trav., 54. An Angel whose face was more coruscant than the Sun.
1700. J. Brome, Trav., ii. (1707), 60. Bright and coruscant Luminaries.
1821. Southey, Vis. Judgem., IV. Turrets and pinnacles sparkled, Playing in jets of light, with a diamond-like glory coruscant.
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c. 1485. Digby Myst. (1882), iii. 953. No creatur so coroscant to my consolacyon!
1644. [H. Parker], Jus Populi, 17. The woman is coruscant by the rayes of her husband.
1881. J. Darrell, in Argosy, 29. A coruscant cloud of phrases.
