fulminate

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Etymology

From Latin fulminātus, past participle of fulminō (“lighten, hurl or strike with lightning”), from fulmen (“lightning which strikes and sets on fire, thunderbolt”), from earlier *fulgmen, *fulgimen, from fulgeō, fulgō (“flash, lighten”). Doublet of fulmine. More at fulgent.

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Verb

fulminate (third-person singular simple present fulminates, present participle fulminating, simple past and past participle fulminated)

  1. (intransitive, figuratively) To make a verbal attack.
  2. (transitive, figuratively) To issue as a denunciation.
    • 1842, Thomas De Quincey, “Cicero”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine:
      They fulminated the most hostile of all decrees.
    • 1855, William Neilson, Mesmerism in its relation to health and disease, page 46:
      In short, the criticism which the great lexicographer fulminated against an unfortunate author, seems to have been adopted by the profession as applicable to everything under the sun […]
  3. (intransitive) To thunder or make a loud noise.
  4. (transitive, now rare) To strike with lightning; to cause to explode.
    • 2009, Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice, Vintage, published 2010, page 235:
      the present owners couldn't afford the electric bills anymore, several amateur gaffers, sad to say, having already been fulminated trying to bootleg power in off the municipal lines.

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Noun

fulminate (plural fulminates)

  1. (chemistry) Any salt or ester of fulminic acid, mostly explosive.
    • 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 193:
      On 19 February a jubilant Bigeard announced that his 3rd R.P.C. had seized eighty-seven bombs, seventy kilos of explosive, 5,120 fulminate of mercury detonators, 309 electric detonators, etc.

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French

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Noun

fulminate m (plural fulminates)

  1. fulminate

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Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

fulminate

  1. inflection of fulminare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

fulminate f pl

  1. feminine plural of fulminato

Latin

Adjective

fulmināte

  1. vocative masculine singular of fulminātus

Spanish

Verb

fulminate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of fulminar combined with te
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