a. rare. [a. F. fulgural, ad. L. fulgurālis, f. fulgur lightning: see -AL.] Of or pertaining to lightning. Fulgural science (Fr. science fulgurale): divination by lightning.
1656–81. Blount, Glossogr., Fulgural, belonging to lightning.
1813. T. Busby, Lucretius, vi. Comment. iv. The Romans, it is well known, derived from the Tuscans the system of their fulgural superstition. Ibid., v. Comment. v. The Tuscan augurs, who were so renowned for the profundity of their skill in fulgural divination.
1891. trans. De la Saussaye’s Man. Sc. Relig., xvi. 139. This fulgural science was considered of Etruscan origin.
