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Fulminate   /fˈʊlmənˌeɪt/   Listen
verb
Fulminate  v. t.  
1.
To cause to explode.
2.
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)  
1.
To thunder; hence, to make a loud, sudden noise; to detonate; to explode with a violent report.
2.
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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"Fulminate" Quotes from Famous Books



... terms, but we must demand them. We desire nothing that is not right and just, and we will submit to nothing that is wrong. But no peace will be acceptable to the people that permits the Lincoln Government to hold its Abolition orgies and fulminate its vile edicts upon slave territory. Much valuable property of our citizens has been destroyed, or stolen and carried off by the invaders; this should be accounted for, and paid. The Yankees were ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various

... 'gainst any man, Would fulminate some harsh decree, And he be wise, and skilled to hear, And used to see; He stops his ears, and blinds his heart, And from his brain ill judgment tears, And makes it bald as 'twere a scalp, Reft of its hairs;[FN495] Until ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 8 • Richard F. Burton

... Crusades, and say that all Germany is torn up from its foundation and precipitated upon France. I suppose no less than 70,000 men have passed within these few days. The German papers, particularly the Rheinische Mercur, continue to fulminate against France and the war yell resounds with as much fury as ever. From the number of troops that continue to pass it would seem as if the Allies did not mean to content themselves with the abdication of Napoleon, ...
— After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 • Major W. E Frye

... words with me, sir," cried the lieutenant, beginning to fulminate with rage. "There, speak out plainly. You mean to tell me that when you came to look for your prisoner—for that is what ...
— Hunting the Skipper - The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop • George Manville Fenn

... 'em. Law always expressing itself with true grammatical precision, never confounding moods, cases, or genders, except indeed when a woman happens accidentally to be slain, then the verdict is always brought in man-slaughter. The essence of the law is altercation; for the law can altercate, fulminate, deprecate, irritate, and go on at any rate. Now the quintessence of the law has, according to its name, five parts. The first is the beginning, or incipiendum; the second the uncertainty, or dubitandum; the third delay, or puzzliendum; fourthly replication without endum; and, ...
— A Lecture On Heads • Geo. Alex. Stevens


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