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Corposant

noun
1.
An electrical discharge accompanied by ionization of surrounding atmosphere.  Synonyms: corona, corona discharge, electric glow, Saint Elmo's fire, Saint Elmo's light, Saint Ulmo's fire, Saint Ulmo's light, St. Elmo's fire.






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"Corposant" Quotes from Famous Books



... and he was cognizant of great enveloping currents of life. Wonder he had known, and bitterness he had known, but the immense forces that wind the stars as a clock is wound he had not known.... And with Claire-Anne they had burst about him like thunder. They had played around him as the corposant flickers around the mast-head of a ship.... Poor Claire-Anne! The miracle of her. She was like some flowering bush in an arctic waste.... Her wonderful scared eyes, her tortured self.... It was a very strange thing that her ...
— The Wind Bloweth • Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne



Words linked to "Corposant" :   electric discharge, spark, discharge, arc, corona discharge, electric arc, electric glow



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