FULMINE

Etymology

Verb

fulmine (third-person singular simple present fulmines, present participle fulmining, simple past and past participle fulmined)

(archaic) To thunder or lightning.

(archaic, figurative) To utter with authority or vehemence; fulminate.

Anagrams

• mineful

Source: Wiktionary


Ful"mine, v. i. Etym: [F. fulminer. See Fulminate, v.]

Definition: To thunder. [Obs.] Spenser. Milton.

Ful"mine, v. t.

Definition: To shoot; to dart like lightning; to fulminate; to utter with authority or vehemence. She fulmined out her scorn of laws Salique. Tennyson.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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