fulguration

/ ˌfʌlɡjʊˈreɪʃən /

noun

1. surgery destruction of tissue by means of high-frequency (more than 10 000 per second) electric sparks

Example Sentences

Self has been dunned by critics who complain of his intellectually florid sentences and his penchant for deploying such dust bunnies of the thesaurus as “fulguration” and “lucubration” — two words he included in his BBC piece.

From Salon

His attack on Orwell contains "lucubration" and "fulguration", inter alia.

From The Guardian

At least residually, the Celtic cultures valorise the excessive and the extreme - the rocky eminence of a warrior-bard whose dark countenance is lit up by brilliant fulguration.

From BBC

This double character of events in History and Nature is dimly descried in what we specially call 'nature', but comes more fully into view in the sphere of human history, where each step is at once a deed and a discovery, a contribution to the constitution of the world of fact and a fulguration of the light within illuminating facts as the condition of its own inexhaustible continuance.

From Project Gutenberg

Institutions do not 'evolve,' nor are they 'derived,' they step into existence by fulguration"—sudden flashes—, "by a process that is technically identical with the theological idea of creation.

From Project Gutenberg