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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.

Definition 2024

Fulminate

Fulminate

See also: fulminate

German

Noun

Fulminate n

  1. plural of Fulminat

fulminate

fulminate

See also: Fulminate

English

Verb

fulminate ‎(third-person singular simple present fulminates, present participle fulminating, simple past and past participle fulminated)

  1. (intransitive, figuratively) To make a verbal attack.
  2. (transitive, figuratively) To issue as a denunciation.
    • De Quincey
      They fulminated the most hostile of all decrees.
  3. (now rare) To strike with lightning; to cause to explode.
    • 2009, Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice, Vintage 2010, p. 235:
      the present owners couldn't afford the electric bills anymore, several amateur gaffers, sad to say, having already been fulminated trying to bootleg power in off the municipal lines.

Synonyms

Translations

Noun

fulminate ‎(plural fulminates)

  1. (chemistry) Any salt or ester of fulminic acid, mostly explosive.
    • 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 193:
      On 19 February a jubilant Bigeard announced that his 3rd R.P.C. had seized eighty-seven bombs, seventy kilos of explosive, 5,120 fulminate of mercury detonators, 309 electric detonators, etc.

Translations

Related terms

Italian

Verb

fulminate

  1. second-person plural present indicative of fulminare
  2. second-person plural imperative of fulminare
  3. feminine plural of fulminato

Latin

Adjective

fulmināte

  1. vocative masculine singular of fulminātus

Etymology

From Latin fulminātus, past participle of fulminō ‎(“lighten, hurl or strike with lightning”), from fulmen ‎(“lightning which strikes and sets on fire, thunderbolt”), from earlier *fulgmen, *fulgimen, from fulgō, fulgeō ‎(“flash, lighten”). More at fulgent.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈfʌlmɪneɪt/

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