What does "fulminate" mean?
Fulminate: To issue or send forth decrees or censures with the assumption of supreme authority; to thunder forth menaces.
Additional senses
- 2.To cause to explode. Sprat.
- 3.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.
- 4.(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.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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