Meaning of FULMINATE
| Pronunciation: | | 'fulmu`neyt
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- [n] a salt or ester of fulminic acid
- [v] cause to explode violently and with loud noise
- [v] come on suddenly and intensely; "the disease fulminated"
- [v] criticize severely; "He fulminated against the Republicans' plan to cut Medicare"; "She railed against the bad social policies"
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| | See Also: | | appear, blow up, come along, denounce, detonate, explode, fulminate of mercury, fulminating mercury, mercury fulminate, salt, set off | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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.
\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.
\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}.
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