Meanings
nounfulgurator (plural fulgurators)
plural fulgurators
- historicalSomebody who predicts the future using lightning.
As the same person might be both extispex and fulgurator, it is not astonishing to find them both called haruspices.
1854, Christian Charles Josias Bunsen, Outlines of the Philosophy of Universal History: Christianity and Mankind, Their Beginnings and Prospects
Origin
- Latinfulgurator
- Englishfulgurator
From Latin fulgurator.
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