fulmine

American  

[fuhl-min] / ˈfʌl mɪn /

verb (used with or without object)

Archaic.

fulmined, fulmining

1. to fulminate.

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Etymology

Origin of fulmine

First recorded in 1580–90, fulmine is from the Latin word fulmināre

Example Sentences

It is not in him to ‘shake the arsenal, and fulmine over Greece.’

From The London Pulpit by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)

Si non hic natibus procax malignis Foedo fulmine turpis intonasset, Unde insurgeret haec querela vindex, Docto et murmure carminis severi Dulces fortiter aggregaret iras?

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard

These are his words; "In Catilianis prodigiis, Pompeiano ex municipio M. Herennius Decurio serena die, fulmine ictus est."

From Observations on Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, and Other Volcanos by Hamilton, William

I, i; for Stengel, see the De judiciis divinis, vol. ii, pp. 15-61, and especially the example of the impurus et saltator sacerdos, fulmine castratus, pp.

From History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom by White, Andrew Dickson

Next in place, next in miseries and discontents, in all manner of hair-brain actions, are great men, procul a Jove, procul a fulmine, the nearer the worse.

From The Anatomy of Melancholy by Burton, Robert