Fulminate /(?)/

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.

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.

1. A salt of fulminic acid. See under Fulminic. (Chem.)