rare. [f. prec.] a. intr. To burst forth, become known. b. trans. To make notorious, bring into publicity.
1736. Hervey, Mem., I. 11. The superior enmity they bore to men in power hindered that which they felt to one another from eclating.
1835. W. H. Maxwell, Capt. Blake, I. xv. A love affair which his blundering management had eclated. Ibid., III. i. Your being eclated in the newspapers.
