Definition of Fulminate

  • (v. i.) To thunder; hence, to make a loud, sudden noise; to detonate; to explode with a violent report.
  • (v. i.) To issue or send forth decrees or censures with the assumption of supreme authority; to thunder forth menaces.
  • (v. t.) To cause to explode.
  • (v. t.) To utter or send out with denunciations or censures; -- said especially of menaces or censures uttered by ecclesiastical authority.
  • (v. i.) A salt of fulminic acid. See under Fulminic.
  • (v. i.) A fulminating powder.

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