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Fulminate   Listen
verb
Fulminate  v. t.  
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."





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"Fulminate" Quotes from Famous Books



... won the battle of Waterloo was not Napoleon, put to rout; not Wellington, giving way at four o'clock, desperate at five; not Bluecher, who did not fight. The man who won the battle of Waterloo was Cambronne. To fulminate at the thunderbolt which kills ...
— Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 4 (of 10) • Various
... and below the edge of the explosion cone, they were nearly blown off the roof. Though no larger than a pinhead, the bomb had the power of a thousand times its weight in fulminate of mercury. When the rain of small stones and dust had subsided, they rubbed their eyes and saw that the airlock was no more. In its place was a shallow pit, ending with the ...
— The Martian Cabal • Roman Frederick Starzl
... we may at least posit that almost unbounded license must be allowed the pen which aims simply to raise a laugh. We do not fulminate against a treatise on Quaternions because it lacks humor. If the drawings of cartoonists are anatomically incorrect, we are smilingly indulgent. Do we condemn a vaudeville skit for not conforming to the Aristotelian code of dramatic technique? Assuredly we ...
— The Dramatic Values in Plautus • Wilton Wallace Blancke
... rapidity of fire. This will be explained later. Only in our day has the general use of rifling and of elongated projectiles brought accuracy to the highest point. In our times, also, the use of fulminate has assured fire ...
— Battle Studies • Colonel Charles-Jean-Jacques-Joseph Ardant du Picq


Words linked to "Fulminate" :   fulmination, denounce, come along, rail, mercury fulminate, salt, detonate, fulminate of mercury, fulminating mercury, appear


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