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.
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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.
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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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