'Fulminating' definitions:
Definition of 'Fulminating'
From: GCIDE
- Fulminating \Ful"mi*na"ting\, a.
- 1. Thundering; exploding in a peculiarly sudden or violent manner. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Hurling denunciations, menaces, or censures. [1913 Webster]
- Fulminating oil, nitroglycerin.
- Fulminating powder (Chem.) any violently explosive powder, but especially one of the fulminates, as mercuric fulminate. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Fulminating'
From: GCIDE
- Fulminate \Ful"mi*nate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fulminated; p. pr. & vb. n. Fulminating.] [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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To issue or send forth decrees or censures with the assumption of supreme authority; to thunder forth menaces. [1913 Webster]