Fulminate /(?)/

Ful·mi·nate

Fulminate

v. i.

imp. & p. p. Fulminated; p. pr. & vb. n. Fulminating

  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

v. t.
  1. To cause to explode.
  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.

Fulminate

n.
  1. A salt of fulminic acid. See under Fulminic. (Chem.)

Phrases & Compounds

Fulminate of gold
an explosive compound of gold; -- called also fulminating gold, and aurum fulminans.