Fulminate
Fulminate , intransitive verb
[Latin fulminatus, past participle of fulminare to lighten, strike with lightning, from fulmen thunderbolt, from fulgere to shine. See Fulgent, and compare 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.
Fulminate , transitive verb
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.
Fulminate , noun
[Compare P. fulminate. See Fulminate, v. i.]
(a)
(Chemistry) A salt of fulminic acid. See under Fulminic.
(b)
(Chemistry) A fulminating powder.
Collocations (1)
Fulminate of gold , an explosive compound of gold; -- called also fulminating gold, and aurum fulminans.