单词 | fulmination |
释义 | fulminationn. 1. Formal pronouncement of an (originally pontifical or ecclesiastical) condemnation or censure; an instance of this. Hence: a violent denunciation or diatribe; an outburst of indignation; (as a mass noun) invective, vituperation. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > excommunication > [noun] mansingOE amansingOE cursing?c1120 malloka1400 malediction1447 sequestrationa1450 comminationa1464 excommengement1495 excommuny1502 fulmination1502 excommunicationa1513 aggravation1531 anathematization1547 anathemization1549 anathema1565 anathemea1575 anathematical1583 anathematizing1593 sequestering1620 excommunion1641 dischurching1644 excision1647 excommunicating1648 unchurching1655 consecration1700 innodation1731 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > denunciation > [noun] > violent thunderc1380 fulmination1502 thunderbolt1559 thundering1564 thunder-crack1577 thunder-clap1610 thunder-blast1884 1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) iv. viii. sig. t.iii v For the twenty fulmynacyons that they make at this daye comenly. 1532–3 Act 24 Henry VIII c. 12 in Statutes of Realm (1963) III. 428 The said fulminacions of any the same interdiccions. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 730/1 Such censures proceede from Antichrist, the which censures, in their processes they doo call Fulminations or Lightninges. 1606 in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times James I (1848) (modernized text) I. 63 Their protestation against the Pope's fulmination. 1618 T. Gainsford Glory Eng. i. viii. 61 Now the Pope and Austria..vnder the danger of fulmination, and Church discipline terrifie them all from contradicting their wilfulnes. 1689 T. Plunket Char. Good Commander 41/1 Their Bulls, nor Fulminations (as we see) Can terrify, nor yet discourage thee. 1714 J. Ayliffe Antient & Present State Univ. Oxf. I. i. 206 Hereupon the University was again oblig'd to have Recourse to the dire Fulmination of another Commercial Interdict. 1725 D. Cotes tr. L. E. Du Pin New Eccl. Hist. 17th Cent. I. v. 190 Excommunication is not denounc'd till after the Fulmination of the Aggrave [sc. a warning given prior to excommunication]. 1743 Gentleman's Mag. June 86/2 The Troops of no Prince of the Empire dare or will act against the Emperor, for fear of subjecting that Prince to whom they belong, to the Fulminations of the Imperial Power. 1797 Encycl. Brit. VI. 639/2 As the clergy were concerned in this affair, they attempted to silence their antagonists by ecclesiastical fulminations against them. 1803 Crit. Rev. June 123 The everlasting verdure of Homer's laurels had nothing to fear from the fulminations of ancient criticism. 1845 H. Rogers Ess. I. iii. 122 Awaiting the fulmination of the bull. 1861 C. Fox Jrnls. II. 280 John Bright is great fun, always ready for a chat and a fulmination. 1904 F. Rolfe Hadrian VII x. 189 Each one suspected his neighbour of being a ‘traitor to the Cause’ whose treachery had taken the form of urging his comrades corporately to attract the pontifical fulmination. 1934 Rotarian June 8/1 Mere fulmination against ‘war’, therefore, gets us nowhere. 1968 G. Daws Shoal of Time ii. 53 Schaëffer filled his journal with fulminations against the villainy of the American traders. 2014 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 7 Dec. The anti-Western fulminations that have become a fixture in Mr. Putin's repertoire were there in force. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > refining > methods of calcinationc1386 calciningc1386 liquation1471 fulmination1617 cupelling1644 decrepitating1662 decrepitation1669 fulguration1676 concentration1689 cupellationa1691 scorification1755 affination1851 thermite process1905 zone melting1952 zone refining1952 zone levelling1953 1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate Termes 343 Fulmination..is a metallicall gradation, with excoction to an absolute perfection in Cineritio, whose purity is declared by an effulgent splendor. 1635 D. Person Varieties v. 43 Take of..Solis the best sort refined by frequent fulmination, and drawne forth in most thinne plates or pieces, one ounce. 1730 P. Shaw tr. G. E. Stahl Philos. Princ. Universal Chem. ii. 269 The principal Operations are Incoction,..and lastly the Act of Fulmination [L. Actus Fulminatorius], or procuring a Splendor to the Metal. 3. The action of thunder and lightning; thundering; lightening; an instance of this. Also in figurative contexts. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > [noun] > bursting violently from rest or restraint > instance of outbreakinga1387 breaking-out1552 outbreak1562 eruption1598 storm1602 out-breach1609 fulmination1623 outflying1641 outburst1657 float1763 overboiling1767 irruption1811 gush1821 outflash1831 outflush1834 shooting forth1837 outbursting1838 blow-off1842 outblaze1843 upburst1843 upthrow1855 upbreak1856 spurt1859 outlash1868 spitfire1886 Brock's benefit1948 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Fulmination, thundring. 1687 C. Nicholets Dissenters Jubilee 39 God hath been a long time speaking to us from the Fulminations of Mount Sinai. 1799 G. Walker Vagabond I. iii. 48 The old fellows thinking their places in danger, and alarmed at the thunders of reason and the fulminations of science, expelled me the college. 1807 J. Barlow Columbiad vii. 267 Flames, triple tier'd, and tides of smoke, arise, And fulminations rock the seas and skies. 1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. III. ix. 203 Saint Paul..Deplored the check o' the puny presence, still Cheating his fulmination of its flash. 1869 E. M. Goulburn Pursuit of Holiness 96 He [sc. God] beats down with His fulminations the old idols of prejudice. 1905 D. English Beasties Courageous 119 A hissing, splitting fulmination, and the great ivied alder crashed into the stream. 1967 J. A. Baker Peregrine i. 14 The memory of a certain fulmination or declension of light that was unique to that time and that place on that day. 2000 Rotarian May 13/1 Man-made noise pales in comparison when considering the fulmination of underwater volcanoes. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sudden or violent sound > explosive sound > [noun] clapc1440 back-blast1577 bouncea1616 blast1635 fulminating1651 fulmination1651 detonation1677 blow1694 explosion1736 bursting1771 blowing up1772 blowing1799 blow-up1807 pong1823 chunk-chunk1898 chunking1902 the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > [noun] > bursting violently from rest or restraint > exploding fulminating1648 fulmination1651 exploding1790 air-burst1917 1651 J. French tr. J. R. Glauber Descr. New Philos. Furnaces ii. 85 If you mixe the Aurum fulminans with some salt nitre, before fulmination [L. fulminationem], then the flores will be the more soluble. 1766 W. Hamilton in Philos. Trans. 1765 (Royal Soc.) 55 176 Mariotte..calls these bubbles [in boiling water] fulminations. 1794 J. Hutton Diss. Philos. Light 232 Another species of explosion, which has been termed fulmination. 1801 tr. M. J. Brisson Physical Princ. Chem. 404 This is what takes place in the inflammation of gun-powder, as well as in the fulmination of gold.., and of fulminating silver. 1922 Brit. Chem Abstr. B 16 3888 This fulmination occurs spontaneously but is quite harmless. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1502 |
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