fulmination

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

FULMINA'TION, noun 1. A thundering. 2. Denunciation of censure or threats, as by papal authority. The fulminations from the Vatican were turned into ridicule. 3. The explosion of certain chimical preparations; detonation.
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