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Definition of Fulminates
Fulminate 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.
Fulminate 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.
Fulminate 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.
