Fulminate — Defs

01 v. i. To thunder; hence, to make a loud, sudden noise; to detonate; to explode with a violent report.

imp. & p. p. Fulminated; p. pr. & vb. n. Fulminating

1.
To thunder; hence, to make a loud, sudden noise; to detonate; to explode with a violent report.
2.
To issue or send forth decrees or censures with the assumption of supreme authority; to thunder forth menaces.

02 v. t. To cause to explode.

1.
To cause to explode.
2.
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.

03 n. A salt of fulminic acid. See under Fulminic.

Phrases & compounds

Fulminate of gold — an explosive compound of gold; -- called also fulminating gold, and aurum fulminans.