FULMINATE

v. n.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

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

2.
v.

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

3.
v.

To cause to explode. Sprat.

4.
v.

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.

5.
n.

A salt of fulminic acid. See under Fulminic.

6.
n.

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

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