scintillate

Etymology


Borrowed from, past participle of , from.

Verb

 * 1)  To give off sparks; to shine as if emanating sparks; to twinkle or glow.
 * 2)  Of a star or other celestial body: to vary rapidly in brightness; to twinkle.
 * 3)  Especially of a phosphor: to emit a flash of light upon absorbing ionizing radiation.
 * 4)  To throw off like sparks.
 * 5) * 1857,, “Mr. Arabin”, in Barchester Towers: In Three Volumes, London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts, 911659634 ; republished as Barchester Towers. [...] In Two Volumes (Hand and Pocket Library; II), volume I, New York, N.Y.: , 18 Ann Street, [1860],  863553483 , page 201:
 * As a boy young Arabin took up the cudgels on the side of the Tractarians, and at Oxford he sat for a while at the feet of the great [John Henry] Newman. To this cause he lent all his faculties. For it he concocted verses, for it he made speeches, for it he scintillated the brightest sparks of his quiet wit.
 * 1)  Of a star or other celestial body: to vary rapidly in brightness; to twinkle.
 * 2)  Especially of a phosphor: to emit a flash of light upon absorbing ionizing radiation.
 * 3)  To throw off like sparks.
 * 4) * 1857,, “Mr. Arabin”, in Barchester Towers: In Three Volumes, London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts, 911659634 ; republished as Barchester Towers. [...] In Two Volumes (Hand and Pocket Library; II), volume I, New York, N.Y.: , 18 Ann Street, [1860],  863553483 , page 201:
 * As a boy young Arabin took up the cudgels on the side of the Tractarians, and at Oxford he sat for a while at the feet of the great [John Henry] Newman. To this cause he lent all his faculties. For it he concocted verses, for it he made speeches, for it he scintillated the brightest sparks of his quiet wit.
 * 1)  Especially of a phosphor: to emit a flash of light upon absorbing ionizing radiation.
 * 2)  To throw off like sparks.
 * 3) * 1857,, “Mr. Arabin”, in Barchester Towers: In Three Volumes, London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts, 911659634 ; republished as Barchester Towers. [...] In Two Volumes (Hand and Pocket Library; II), volume I, New York, N.Y.: , 18 Ann Street, [1860],  863553483 , page 201:
 * As a boy young Arabin took up the cudgels on the side of the Tractarians, and at Oxford he sat for a while at the feet of the great [John Henry] Newman. To this cause he lent all his faculties. For it he concocted verses, for it he made speeches, for it he scintillated the brightest sparks of his quiet wit.
 * As a boy young Arabin took up the cudgels on the side of the Tractarians, and at Oxford he sat for a while at the feet of the great [John Henry] Newman. To this cause he lent all his faculties. For it he concocted verses, for it he made speeches, for it he scintillated the brightest sparks of his quiet wit.

Translations

 * Arabic: تَأَلَّقَ, تَلَأْلَأَ
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: ,
 * Czech: třpytit se, jiskřit
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: flagreti, flagri, trembrili
 * French:
 * German:, , szintillieren, , , ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:, fényt lövell,
 * Ido:
 * Irish: aibhligh, drithligh
 * Latin: scintillō
 * Maori: kikiwa
 * Old English: blīcan
 * Shan:
 * Spanish: