fulminate
pronunciation
How to pronounce fulminate in British English:
UK [ˈfʊlmɪneɪt]
How to pronounce fulminate in American English:
US [ˈfʊlmɪneɪt]
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- Noun:
- a salt or ester of fulminic acid
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- Verb:
- criticize severely
- come on suddenly and intensely
- cause to explode violently and with loud noise
Word Origin
- fulminate
- fulminate: [15] Etymologically, fulminate means ‘strike with lightning’. It comes from Latin fulmināre, a derivative of fulmen ‘lightning’. In medieval Latin its literal meaning gave way to the metaphorical ‘pronounce an ecclesiastical censure on’, and this provided the semantic basis for its English derivative fulminate, although in the 17th and 18th centuries there were sporadic learned reintroductions of its original meteorological sense: ‘Shall our Mountains be fulminated and thunder-struck’, William Sancroft, Lex ignea 1666.
- fulminate (v.)
- early 15c., "publish a 'thundering' denunciation; hurl condemnation (at an offender)," a figurative use, from Latin fulminatus, past participle of fulminare "hurl lightning, lighten," figuratively "to thunder," from fulmen (genitive fulminis) "lightning flash," related to fulgor "lightning," fulgere "to shine, flash," from PIE *bhleg- "to shine, flash," from root *bhel- (1) "to shine, flash, burn" (see bleach (v.)). Metaphoric sense (the oldest in English) in reference to formal condemnation is from Medieval Latin fulminare, used of formal ecclesiastical censures. Related: Fulminated; fulminating.
Example
- 1. From every pulpit , clergymen fulminate against sin .
- 2. Mercury fulminate is easy to produce , has been known since earliest times and is still widely used .
- 3. I strongly fulminate the news that humiliates the apple 's reputation !
- 4. Effect of compound glycyrrhizin on hepatic function of reserve in patients with chronic fulminate hepatitis .
- 5. Experimental study on apa microencapsulated porcine hepatocytes transplantation in the treatment of fulminate hepatic failure rat .