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[L., lightning that strikes or sets on fire, a thunderbolt, orig. * fulgmen, * fulgimen, Reasoning cannot find such a mine of thought, nor eloquence such a fulmen of expre ion. Sir W. Hamilton. fulminant (ful'mi-nant), a. [L. fulminan ( t- )s, ppr. of fulminare: see fulminate.] 1. Lightening and thundering; making a great stir. The drear Clergy, fulminant in ire, Flash'd through his bigot Midnight, threat'ning fire. Colman the Younger , Vagaries Vindicated, p. 194. 2. In pathol . , developing suddenly: as, fulmi nant plague. The glandular alterations were especially pronounced in fulminant cases. Med. News , L. 41. fulminate (ful'mi-nāt), v.; pret. and pp. fulmi nated, ppr. fulminating. [L. fulminatus, pp. of fulminare (> It. fulminare = Pr. Sp. Pg. ful minar = F. fulminer ), lighten, hurl lightnings, tr. strike or blast with lightning, With a fiery wreath bind thou my brow, That mak'st my muse in flames to fulminate. Sir J. Davies, Wittes Pilgrimage, sig. I, 4, b. IMG:content-1934.png:[blocks in formation] with antimony. Antimony is used as the last test of gold; to try the purity whereof, a grain or two being tested with twenty quantity of regulus of antimony, till the mony is either evaporated or turned to a scoria to be blown away by the bellows, and the gold have fulminated, as the refiners call it: that is, till its surface appears everywhere similar and equable. P. Shaw, Chemistry, Of Gold. ratively, to utter or send out, as a denunciation II. trans. 1. To cause to explode.-2. Figuor censure; especially, to send out, as a menace or censure, by ecclesiastical authority. fulth