Hypertext Webster Gateway: "fulminate"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Fulminate \Ful"mi*nate\, v. 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Fulminate \Ful"mi*nate\, v. 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Fulminate \Ful"mi*nate\, n. [Cf. P. fulminate. See {Fulminate},
v. 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}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
fulminate
n : a salt or ester of fulminic acid
v 1: criticize severely; "He fulminated against the Republicans'
plan to cut Medicare"; "She railed against the bad
social policies" [syn: {rail}]
2: come on suddenly and intensely; "the disease fulminated"
3: cause to explode violently and with loud noise
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