单词 | fulminator |
释义 | fulminatorn. 1. (An epithet or title of) the Roman god Jupiter as controller of the weather. Chiefly with capital initial. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [noun] > Jupiter Jupiterc1275 Jovec1374 thundererc1374 altitonant?1578 lightener1598 thunder-darter1605 thunder-bearer1608 Saturnian1611 fulminator1613 thunder-mastera1616 fly-way-driver1658 Jupiter Pluvius1864 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage iii. xvi. 275 In Troy were the Temples of Iupiter Hercens, at whose Altar Priam was slaine; of Iupiter Fulminator, of Iuno, Apollo, Minerua, [etc.]. 1709 A. Tooke tr. F. Pomey Pantheon (ed. 5) iv. 24 Fulminator..is Jupiter's Title, from hurling Thunder. 1767 Philos. Trans. 1766 (Royal Soc.) 56 8 A bed of state, dedicated to Jupiter Maximus Fulminator, or the supreme God Jupiter the Thunderer. 1884 Force & Franchise 21 A Roman of old seeing it was a bad business to get in the way of the lightning.., might have set up a temple to Jupiter Fulminator. 1925 Classical Weekly 18 156/2 They were especially versed in the ways of Jupiter Fulminator. 2009 Zeitschr. f. Papyrologie u. Epigraphik 169 247 According to Apuleius from Madaurus Jupiter is called both Fulgurator and Fulminator. 2. A person who fulminates or forcibly criticizes or denounces. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > denunciation > [noun] > one who denouncer1664 fulminator1763 denunciator1833 1763 Mem. Bedford Coffee-house 198 It is me, Sir, that writes you this, to be inrolled amongst the formost of the meteors of the age. Being, &c. Fulminator. 1808 Crit. Rev. Oct. 326 The fulminator was still heard in the troubled air of the cabinet. 1875 J. W. Howlett Pop. Fallacies Land & Land Laws 13 The estate from which an ex-Lord Chancellor, and great fulminator of these notions, takes his title, was some years ago sold. 1993 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 21 July a2/2 Editorialists and other professional fulminators are already dusting off their best pejoratives. 2013 T. R. Nevin Last Years St. Therese 73 The radically unpleasant Jesus, the fulminator according to Matthew, the Jesus of a furious righteousness cursing his securely entrenched foes. 3. A compound or device that can be used to produce a small explosion. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > explosive device > [noun] fulminator1861 device1931 society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > explosive material > [noun] fulminant1807 explosive1836 fulminator1861 the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electric charge, electricity > [noun] > electric shock > device producing fulminator1905 jigger1972 1861–5 Beeton's Dict. Univ. Information 835/2 The fulminators..are compounds of the metals with a true acid. 1905 Westm. Gaz. 10 June 16/1 An electrical apparatus for the purpose of electrocuting a certain obnoxious member of the..coleoptera..is described..as an ‘Electrical Fulminator for Insects’. 1918 I. S. Cobb Glory of Coming xviii. 305 The jaunty individual who pulled the firing wire of a French grenade and catching the hissing sound of the fulminator working its way toward the charge exclaimed: ‘That's it—fry, gosh dern you, fry!’ 1957 U.S. Patent 2,791,111 3 A paste type fulminator photoflash lamp. 2005 A. A. Randall Lonely Lancer xvi. 286 Electric cable, Mercury fulminators, plungers—the lot. Supplied courtesy of the Madras S&M. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1613 |
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