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/fˈʊlmənˌeɪt/ Listen

verb

Fulminate v. t.

To cause to explode.

To utter or send out with denunciations or censures; said especially of menaces or censures uttered by ecclesiastical authority. "They fulminated the most hostile of all decrees."

Fulminate v. i. (past & past part. fulminated; pres. part. fulminating)

To thunder; hence, to make a loud, sudden noise; to detonate; to explode with a violent report.

To issue or send forth decrees or censures with the assumption of supreme authority; to thunder forth menaces.

noun

Fulminate n. (Chem.)

(a)

A salt of fulminic acid. See under Fulminic.

(b)

A fulminating powder.

Fulminate of gold, an explosive compound of gold; called also fulminating gold, and aurum fulminans.

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Etymology of 'Fulminate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Fulminate" Quotes from Famous Books

... had a mind of the sequential order. By subtle processes, unanalysable even by herself, even the record of Miss Bessy Dicky started this mind upon momentous trains of thought. Unquestionably the Zenith Club acted as a fulminate for little Annie Eustace. To others it might seem, during some of the sessions, as a pathetic attempt of village women to raise themselves upon tiptoes enough to peer over their centuries of weedy feminine ...

— The Butterfly House • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

... forensic battle, fearless of all consequences; and as the ancient war-chariot would sometimes set its axle on fire by the rapidity of its own movement, so would the ardent soul of Otis become ignited and fulminate with thought, as he swept ...

— James Otis The Pre-Revolutionist • John Clark Ridpath

... determined opposition in the house of lords to the bill of uniformity lately carried by a great majority. The explanations and arguments of the viscount prevailed so far with Philip, that he ordered his ambassador at Rome to oppose the endeavours of the French court to prevail on the pope to fulminate his ecclesiastical censures against Elizabeth. It was found impracticable, however, to bring him to terms of cordial amity with a heretic sovereign whose principles he both detested and dreaded; and by returning, some time after, the decorations ...

— Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth • Lucy Aikin

... in the least deceived. However, he was eager for the conflict to begin. He had no time to waste. He snatched off his hat, let out a wild, shrill yell, dug with his spurs and struck the animal a resounding slap on the flank, that, like a fulminate, suddenly detonated the ...

— The Furnace of Gold • Philip Verrill Mighels

... battle, fearless of all consequences; and as the ancient war-chariot would sometimes set its axle on fire by the rapidity of its own movement, so would the ardent soul of Otis become ignited and fulminate with thought, as he swept irresistibly ...

— James Otis The Pre-Revolutionist • John Clark Ridpath

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