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pal dialects of the German language, which was crowned 
by the royal fociety of Gottingen. The piincipal fadts 
and moft ingeniotis ideas contained in this elfay he intro¬ 
duced, fome years after, in his Diiftionary of the German 
Roots. If the German language was much indebted to Fulda 
for this work, in which he made the firff attempt to illuflrate 
the philofopliy of its elements, its antiquity, and richnefs, 
it was not a little improved by the Spracltforfcher, or En¬ 
quiry into Language, which he publilhed in conjunftion 
■with Naff, fenior, of Stutgard. His fervice to the Ger- 
,man language was ftill farther increafed by his Idiotihon, 
^ His philofophical acutenefs, extenfive knowledge of lan¬ 
guage and the hifforyofit, and his indefatigable diligence 
in fearching all tlie documents that could tend to illuf- 
trate the object of his purfuit, appear not only in his 
larger works, but in his fmaller elfays and papers, which 
were publiflied at different times. He did not, however, 
confine his refcarchcs to language alone, but extended 
them to hiflory and antiquities in general. Of this he 
gave various proofs in fingle differtations, which appear- 
ed in various colleftions : fuch as. On the Origin of the 
Goths; On the Veronel'e and Vicentine Cimhri; On the 
Deities of the Germans, &c. But the principal monument 
of his extenfive and well arranged treafure of hifiorical 
knowledge, ingenuity, and inventive genius, is contained 
in his Chart of Hiflory, publiflied at Augfburg in 1783. In 
his younger years he was accuftomed, according to the 
method of his preceptor Goritz of Stutgard, to redder 
different obje6ls of knowledge ealier to be retained in the 
memory'by graphic reprefentations. At a period of greater 
maturity, he exhibited in a fort of genealogical tree, the 
connedfion of all the fciences, profeilions, arts, and handi¬ 
crafts. In a fimilar manner he reprefented, in 1787, all 
the organs of fpeech, with the origin of human language 
and ideas. His Chart of Hiflory, a fketch of which was 
ready in 1756, arofe from a fimilar origin. He died at 
F'.inzigen on the nth of December, 178S. Though the 
philol'of:hy of language feemed to be the principal field 
which he cultivated, and which he rendered fruitful with 
fo much fuccefs, his extenfive genius embraced every 
thing that belongs to the department of the fciences. 
He exercifed his ingenuity alfo in things wh ch one could 
hardly expedl from au abfiradl; thinker. All the window 
and bed curtains in the hoiife were of his own making ; 
and he not only invented implements for weaving the 
fringes, but worked them himfelf. Tiie tables, chairs, 
and fofas, were alfo of his own conflruftion. 
7 b FLfLFIL', v.a. To fill till there is no room for 
more. This fenfe is now not ufed : 
Six gates i’ th’ city, with matfy flaples, 
And comTponfi ve and fuljilling bolts, 
Sparre up the fons of Troy. Shakefpeare. 
Toanfwer any prophecy or promife by performance.— 
They knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets 
which are ve.id every fabbath-day, they have fulfilled them 
in condemning him. AEls, xiii. 27. 
The fury bath’d them in each other’s blood ; 
Then liaving fix’d the fight, exulting flies. 
And bears fulfill’d her promife to the Ikies. Dryden. 
To anfwer any purpofe or defign,—Here nature feems fid. 
f.ll’d in all her ends. Milton, —To anfwer ajiy delire by 
compliance or gratification: 
If on my vvounded breaft thoudrop’fla tear, 
I'hink for whole fake my breall that wound did bear ; 
And faithfully my lafl defires fulfil^ 
As I perform my cruel father’s will, Dryden. 
Toanfwer any law by obedience.—Love vvorketii no ill 
to his neighbour, therefore love is the fulfilling ui the law. 
Romt xiii, 10. 
This I my glory account, 
My exaltation, and my whole delight, 
Tliat thou in me well-p'eas’d declar’d thy will 
Fulfill’d; wliich to fulfill is all my blifs. Milton. 
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FUL'FRAUGHT, adj. Fully dored: 
Thy fall liath left a kind of blot 
To mark ihefulfraught man, the bed endu’d. 
With fome fufpicion, Skakfpeart. 
FUL'GENCY,yi ^ fulgens, Splendour; glitter. 
FUL'GENT, adj. Lat.] Shining; dazzling; 
exquifitely bright.—The illumination is not fo bright 
and fulgent as to obfcure or extinguifh all perceptibility 
of reafon. More. 
As from a cloud his fulgent head, 
And fhape dar-bright, appear’d. Milton. 
FUI.GEN'TIUS, a Romifh faint, and African prelate 
in the fixth century, born at Lepte in Byzacena, about 
the year 468. Having lod his father when very young, 
he was placed by his mother under aLle tutors in the La¬ 
tin and Greek languages, and made extraordinary profici¬ 
ency in both. He alio poffetfed fo drong a memory, that 
when he was a boy he could repeat the whole of Homer ; 
and he could converfe in the Greek language witii purity 
and fluency. Refolving to embrace a religious life, he 
early took tlie vows, and placed himfelf under the difei- 
pline of Faudus, a catholic bidiop, who had edabliflied 
a monadery in the vicinity of Lepte. 10490, th.eperfe- 
cutions of the Arians againd Faudus dif perfed his com¬ 
munity, and Fu'.geiuius entered into another monadery in 
the fame neighbourhood, where tlie high opinion enter¬ 
tained of his fantlity and merits, occafiotied liis being ap. 
pointed co-abbot with Felix, the fnperiorof that inditu- 
tion. Before a long tune had intervened, the incurfions 
of the Moors having fcattered the religious ofthismonaf- 
tery, Fulgentius embarked for Egypt, with the defign 
of afiociating v\ith the monks in that country ; but hav¬ 
ing put into Syracufe on his voyage, he was dil.uaded 
from proceeding by Eulalius, bifiiop of that city, be- 
caufe the Egyptian monks bad feparated from the com¬ 
munion of the church of Rome. After fpending fome 
time in Synciife he went to Rome in the year 500, and, 
having offered his devotion at tive fepulchres of the apof- 
tles, returned to Africa, where he edablifhed a new mo¬ 
nadery in the province of Byzacena; At this time Afri¬ 
ca was under the dominion of Tlirafimond king of the 
Vandals, who was an Arian, and a bitter enemy to the 
Catholics. He had ifTued a decree, by wliich it was for¬ 
bidden 10 ordain new catholic bifhops to fupply the pla¬ 
ces of thofe who (hould die; but the African prelates had 
come to adetermination to pay no refpeCt to his tyrannical 
mandate. Upon a vacancy taking place in the fee of 
Rufpa, he was, though very unwillingly, ordained bi¬ 
diop of that place, in 504, according to Baronins, but 
according to other hidoriaiis in 508. 11 was not long after 
his ordination, that, by a decree of Thrafimond, he was 
banidied, in comtnon with the other catholic biihops of 
Africa, to the ifiand of Sardinia. In this place of exile, 
though he was of juniorrank among his brotlier prelates, 
yet his learning and talents cauled him to be refpecled by 
them as their abled advifer and advocate, and they made 
life of his pen in the writings which were circulated in their 
common name, to vindicate themrelves and their princi¬ 
ples. By the treatifes which he wrote, he acquired fo 
high a reputation, that Thrafimond had the curiofiry to 
fee and hear him; and having fent for him to Carthage, 
propofed to him many difficulties, which, according to 
the catholic writers, he anfwered to the king’s fatisfac- 
tion. The opportunity, hovvever, which he embraced 
during bis relideivce at Carthage, of confirming the Ca¬ 
tholics in their opinions, and of converting fome Arians, 
having awakened the jealoufy of the arrun bilhop, Thra- 
limond was perfuaded to fend Fulgentius back to liis place 
of exile in Sardinia. Upon tlie death of Thrafimond, 
about tlie year 522, his fon Hilderic recalled the catholic 
• biffiops; and Fulgentius, as well as his fellow.fufferers, 
met with ajoyftil reception from the orthodox in Africa. 
He appears to have fpent the remainder of his life in 
peace and tranquillity, difeharging the duties of his epif- 
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