FUL'MINATE, verb intransitive [Latin fulmino, from fulmen, thunder, from a root in Bl, which signifies to throw or to burst forth.] 1. To thunder. 2. To make a loud sudden noise, or a sudden sharp crack; to detonate; as fulminating gold. 3. To hurl papal thunder; to issue forth ecclesiastical censures, as the pope. FUL'MINATE, verb transitive 1. To utter or send out, as a denunciation or censure; to send out, as a menace or censure by ecclesiastical authority. 2. To cause to explode.
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