All 5 Uses
scintillating
in
The Divine Comedy -- translated by Longfellow
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- Then I beheld another with those waters
Adown her cheeks which grief distils whenever
From great disdain of others it is born,
And saying: "If of that city thou art lord,
For whose name was such strife among the gods,
And whence doth every science scintillate,
Avenge thyself on those audacious arms
That clasped our daughter, O Pisistratus;"
And the lord seemed to me benign and mild
To answer her with aspect temperate:
"What shall we do to those who wish us ill,
If he who loves us be by us condemned?"†Canto 2.12-22scintillate = stimulates; or reflects brilliant light in a flickering manner - Thou fain wouldst know who is within this light
That here beside me thus is scintillating,
Even as a sunbeam in the limpid water.†Canto 3.1-11 * - From horn to horn, and 'twixt the top and base,
Lights were in motion, brightly scintillating
As they together met and passed each other;
Thus level and aslant and swift and slow
We here behold, renewing still the sight,
The particles of bodies long and short,
Across the sunbeam move, wherewith is listed
Sometimes the shade, which for their own defence
People with cunning and with art contrive.†Canto 3.12-22 - And soon as to a stop her words had come,
Not otherwise does iron scintillate
When molten, than those circles scintillated.†Canto 3.23-33scintillate = stimulates; or reflects brilliant light in a flickering manner - And soon as to a stop her words had come,
Not otherwise does iron scintillate
When molten, than those circles scintillated.†Canto 3.23-33scintillated = stimulated; or reflected brilliant light in a flickering manner
Definitions:
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(1)
(scintillating) brilliantly lively, clever, or exciting
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)