FULMINATE • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Fulminate

"Fulminate" Quotes from Famous Books

... scant three inches long, no thicker than the stylus on milady's desk! But here was service ammunition, as Harkness had said; and in the end of the lead a fulminate cap was buried—and a grain ...

— Astounding Stories, May, 1931 • Various

... blindness with respect to the discernment of the breath of life contained in the febrile agitations of new Germany, which discharged from its revolutionary tripod sufficient magnetism and electricity between the tempests, similar to those which flash, and thunder, and fulminate, from the summits of all the Sinais of all histories, to inflame a higher soul in any other more progressive society. The world cannot understand that he should have been perturbed by the external clamor of ...

— The Arena - Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 • Various

... had long trembled on his throne before the genius of the man who had foiled Spain's boldest generals and wiliest statesmen. The King, accepting the priest's advice, resolved to fulminate a ban against the Prince, and to set a price upon his head. "It will be well," wrote Philip to Parma, "to offer thirty thousand crowns or so to any one who will deliver him dead or alive. Thus the ...

— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley

... maturity as to embolden her to attempt extorting the right of investitures from the temporal power, Europe, especially Italy and Germany, was thrown into the most violent convulsions, and the pope and the emperor waged implacable war on each other. Gregory dared to fulminate the sentence of excommunication against Henry and his adherents, to pronounce him rightfully deposed, to free his subjects from their oaths of allegiance; and instead of shocking mankind by this gross encroachment on the ...

— The History of England, Volume I • David Hume

Words linked to "Fulminate" : denounce, set off, explode, salt, appear, fulminating mercury, rail, fulminant, blow up, come along, detonate, fulmination