Crossword clues for fulminate
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
To thunder; hence, to make a loud, sudden noise; to detonate; to explode with a violent report.
To issue or send forth decrees or censures with the assumption of supreme authority; to thunder forth menaces.
Fulminate \Ful"mi*nate\, v. t.
To cause to explode.
--Sprat.-
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 \Ful"mi*nate\, n. [Cf. P. fulminate. See Fulminate, v. i.] (Chem.)
A salt of fulminic acid. See under Fulminic.
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A fulminating powder.
Fulminate of gold, an explosive compound of gold; -- called also fulminating gold, and aurum fulminans.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "publish a 'thundering' denunciation; hurl condemnation (at an offender)," a figurative use, from Latin fulminatus, past participle of fulminare "hurl lightning, lighten," figuratively "to thunder," from fulmen (genitive fulminis) "lightning flash," related to fulgor "lightning," fulgere "to shine, flash," from PIE *bhleg- "to shine, flash," from root *bhel- (1) "to shine, flash, burn" (see bleach (v.)). Metaphoric sense (the oldest in English) in reference to formal condemnation is from Medieval Latin fulminare, used of formal ecclesiastical censures. Related: Fulminated; fulminating.
Wiktionary
n. (context chemistry English) Any salt or ester of fulminic acid, mostly explosive. vb. 1 (context intransitive figuratively English) To make a verbal attack. 2 (context transitive figuratively English) To issue as a denunciation. 3 (context now rare English) To strike with lightning; to cause to explode.
WordNet
n. a salt or ester of fulminic acid
v. criticize severely; "He fulminated against the Republicans' plan to cut Medicare"; "She railed against the bad social policies" [syn: rail]
come on suddenly and intensely; "the disease fulminated"
cause to explode violently and with loud noise
Wikipedia
Fulminates are chemical compounds which include the fulminate ion. The fulminate ion, is a pseudohalic ion, acting like a halogen with its charge and reactivity. Due to the instability of the ion, fulminate salts are friction-sensitive explosives. The best known is mercury(II) fulminate, which has been used as a primary explosive in detonators. Fulminates can be formed from metals, such as silver and mercury, dissolved in nitric acid and reacted with ethanol. It is largely the presence of the weak single nitrogen-oxygen bond which leads to its instability. Nitrogen very easily forms a stable triple bond to another nitrogen atom, forming gaseous nitrogen.
Usage examples of "fulminate".
Whilst the Porte was fulminating her bull of excommunication, she directed a note to the corps diplomatique at Constantinople, in which she explained the quarrel with her subjects, and in which she demanded the strictest neutrality on the part of the great powers, and declared Egypt in a state of blockade.
And from the moment that the Senate had been unofficially apprised by Nani that the terrible Interdict was already printed and would presently be fulminated, every possible precaution of self-defense had been put in operation throughout the dominions of Venice, with an ingenuity, a foresight, and a celerity which the watching courts of Europe not only viewed with amazement, but accepted as an evidence of the conscious power and justice of the Republic.
The carpenter listened to Erna Pokriefke with serenity, for she fulminated in the Koshnavian manner.
Blott dashed in and listened to General Burnett fulminating from the Grange about blackguards in Whitehall, red tape, green belts and bluestockings, none of which he fully understood.
I had him brought in, and, in the presence of my lieutenant, he told me in Italian: "Next Sunday, the Papa Deldimopulo will fulminate against you the 'cataramonachia'.
On the notice that Eugenius had fulminated a bull for that purpose, they ventured to summon, to admonish, to threaten, to censure the contumacious successor of St.
On the notice that Eugenius had fulminated a bull for that purpose, they ventured to summon, to admonish, to threaten, to censure the contumacious successor of St.
He might be denouncing Goldstein and demanding sterner measures against thought criminals and saboteurs, he might be fulminating against the atrocities of the Eurasian army, he might be praising Big Brother or the heroes on the Malabar front-it made no difference.
Army, presented with acute alcohol intoxication, diffuse anxiety alternating with a depressionlike state, fulminating anger, self-mutilating behavior, and an eightpound chart of his previous hospitalizations.
Then the natives placed ammonium nitrate and fulminate caps in the trench.
Mauvin, as he followed her out, handed me one of Pyrullo's fliers, from which I learned that it was high time to dispense with the bungling of irresponsible amateurs who couldn't tell dynamite from melinite, or fulminate mercury from a simple Bickford fuse.
Radio wave that activates an electric cell that burns the wire in a mercury fulminate detonator.
Monsieur Bertholet, by dissolving silver in the nitrous acid, precipitating it with lime water, and drying the precipitate on ammoniac, has discovered a powder which fulminates most powerfully, on coming into contact with any substance whatever.
But there had been a cutback in permits when the Limiters began fulminating opposition.
If Raunchy had become mercuric sulfide, Hellfire was closer to fulminate of mercury: handle with extreme caution.