Fulminate

·vt To cause to explode.

II. Fulminate ·vi A fulminating powder.

III. Fulminate ·vi A salt of fulminic acid. ·see under Fulminic.

IV. Fulminate ·vi To issue or send forth decrees or censures with the assumption of supreme authority; to thunder forth menaces.

V. Fulminate ·vt To utter or send out with denunciations or censures;

— said especially of menaces or censures uttered by ecclesiastical authority.

VI. Fulminate ·vi To Thunder; hence, to make a loud, sudden noise; to Detonate; to explode with a violent report.