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fulmine

American  
[fuhl-min] / ˈfʌl mɪn /

verb (used with or without object)

Archaic.
fulmined, fulmining
  1. to fulminate.


Etymology

Origin of fulmine

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

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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 Robert Burton

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

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

From what hand shall it fulmine over England as over Greece?

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various

"To the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmined over Greece To Macedon and Artaxerxes' throne."

From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay

It was not given to the ancient Greek who 'shook the arsenal and fulmined over Greece.'

From The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence by Theodore Parker

Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democraty, Shook the arsenal, and fulmined over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.

From Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett

Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democracy, Shook the Arsenal, and fulmined over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.

From Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various

It fulmined from the pulpit and frowned from the pews.

From William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist by Archibald Henry Grimké

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