In the 18th century, the Swedish government made coffee and its paraphernalia (including cups and dishes) illegal for its supposed ties to rebellious sentiment.
FULMINATING
Verb
fulminating
present participle of fulminate
Adjective
fulminating (comparative more fulminating, superlative most fulminating)
explosive
(medicine) Describing any sudden and severe (often fatal) inflammation
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Ful"mi*na"ting, a.
1. Thundering; exploding in a peculiarly sudden or violent manner.
2. Hurling denunciations, menaces, or censures. Fulminating oil, nitroglycerin.
– Fulminating powder (Chem.) any violently explosive powder, but especially one of the fulminates, as mercuric fulminate.
FULMINATE
Ful"mi*nate, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fulminated; p. pr. & vb. n. Fulminating.] Etym: [L. fulminatus, p. p. of fulminare to lighten, strike with lightning, fr. fulmen thunderbolt, fr. fulgere to shine. See Fulgent, and cf. Fulmine.]
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.
Ful"mi*nate, v. t.
1. To cause to explode. Sprat.
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.
Ful"mi*nate, n. Etym: [Cf. P. fulminate. See Fulminate, v. i.] (Chem.) (a) A salt of fulminic acid. See under Fulminic. (b) A fulminating powder. Fulminate of gold, an explosive compound of gold; -- called also fulminating gold, and aurum fulminans.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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