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Webster 1913 Edition

Fulminate

Ful′mi-nate

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Fulminated
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Fulminating
.]
[L.
fulminatus
, p. p. of
fulminare
to lighten, strike with lightning, fr.
fulmen
thunderbolt, fr.
fulgere
to shine. See
Fulgent
, and cf.
Fulmine
.]
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.

Ful′mi-nate

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To cause to explode.
Sprat.
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.
De Quincey.

Ful′mi-nate

,
Noun.
[Cf. P.
fulminate
. See
Fulminate
,
Verb.
I.
]
(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
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Fulminate

FUL'MINATE

,
Verb.
I.
[L. fulmino, from fulmen, thunder, from a root in Bl, which signifies to throw or to burst forth.]
1.
To thunder.
2.
To make a loud sudden noise, or a sudden sharp crack; to detonate; as fulminating gold.
3.
To hurl papal thunder; to issue forth ecclesiastical censures, as the pope.

FUL'MINATE

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To utter or send out, as a denunciation or censure; to send out, as a menace or censure by ecclesiastical authority.
2.
To cause to explode.

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