fulminate

fulminate
\ \ [15] Etymologically, fulminate means ‘strike with lightning’. It comes from Latin fulmināre, a derivative of fulmen ‘lightning’. In medieval Latin its literal meaning gave way to the metaphorical ‘pronounce an ecclesiastical censure on’, and this provided the semantic basis for its English derivative fulminate, although in the 17th and 18th centuries there were sporadic learned reintroductions of its original meteorological sense: ‘Shall our Mountains be fulminated and thunder-struck’, William Sancroft, Lex ignea 1666.

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  • Fulminate — Général Nom IUPAC Oxidoazaniumylidynemethane No CAS …   Wikipédia en Français

  • 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. [1913 Webster] {Fulminate of gold}, an explosive compound of gold; called also {fulminating gold}, and …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 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;… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Fulminate — Ful mi*nate, v. t. 1. To cause to explode. Sprat. [1913 Webster] 2. To utter or send out with denunciations or censures; said especially of menaces or censures uttered by ecclesiastical authority. [1913 Webster] They fulminated the most hostile… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Fulmināte — (lat.), soviel wie Knallsäuresalze, z. B. Silberfulminat, knallsaures Silber; s. Knallsäure …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • Fulminate — Fulminate, s. Initialzündungen …   Lexikon der gesamten Technik

  • Fulminate — Fulmināte, die Salze der Knallsäure (s.d.) …   Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

  • fulminate — index defame, discharge (shoot), inveigh, threaten Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • Fulminate — Fulminate,   Singular Fulminat das, (e)s, die sehr explosiven Salze der Knallsäure.   …   Universal-Lexikon

  • fulminate — (v.) early 15c., publish a thundering denunciation, from L. fulminatus, pp. of fulminare hurl lightning, lighten, from fulmen (gen. fulminis) lightning flash, related to fulgere to shine, flash, from PIE *bhleg to shine, flash, from root *bhel… …   Etymology dictionary

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