fulminev.
/ˈfʌlmɪn/, /ˈfʊlmɪn/, U.S. /ˈfʊlmən/, /ˈfəlmən/ Now rare.† 1.
a. transitive. To emit (lightning or thunder). Obsolete.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > thunder and lightning > [verb (transitive)]
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1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. ii. sig. Cc7v As it had beene a flake Of lightning, through bright heuen fulmined.
1830 W. Phillips Mt. Sinai iv. 381 A sound As 'twere of thunder fulmined nigh at hand, O'erwhelm'd his hearing.
b. transitive. figurative. To express fiercely or violently; to shout or thunder out. Obsolete.
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the mind > emotion > anger > furious anger > infuriate [verb (transitive)] > be furious at or rage
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1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess ii. 29 She fulmined out her scorn of laws Salique And little-footed China.
1858 J. Hildyard Reply to Bishops in Convocation 50 The mighty spirit of Demosthenes on the shores of the Piræus, fulmining out his exercises to the roaring Ægean.
2. intransitive. To speak out fiercely and censoriously; to rage. Now rare.In later use chiefly after Milton (quot. 1671).
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the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > speak in a particular manner [verb (intransitive)] > speak loudly or angrily
thundera1340
raisec1384
to speak outc1515
jowlc1540
fulmine1623
to talk big1680
tang1686
to speak upa1723
to go ona1753
rip1828
whalea1852
yap1864
to rip and tear1884
megaphone1901
to pop off1914
foghorn1918
to sound off1918
loudmouth1931
woof1934
1623 tr. A. Favyn Theater of Honour & Knight-hood ii. xiii. 276 He had interdicted and fulmined [Fr. fulminé] against the Emperour.
1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iv. 267 Those ancient [orators], whose resistless eloquence..Shook the Arsenal and fulmin'd over Greece To Macedon and Artaxerxes' throne. View more context for this quotation
1782 G. Hardinge Rowley & Chatterton ii. 24 To be sure his Majesty did fulmine in a noble strain.
c1820 S. Rogers Luigi in Italy 35 How unlike him who fulmined in old Rome!
1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 384 Listening to him who fulmined over Greece.
1915 G. B. Ives Evol. of Teacher iv. 49 But Parson P—— knew no distinction of persons, and fulmined over Hilltown in this wise.
1942 E. L. Masters Sangamon v. 76 The number of distinguished men who fulmined in this forum is too long to recount.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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