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

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fulmine fulmined

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

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

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

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

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

It fulmined from the pulpit and frowned from the pews.

From William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist by Grimké, Archibald Henry

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 Bartlett, John

Though this was not the method of old Rome, When Tully fulmined o'er each vocal dome, Demosthenes has sanctioned the transaction,500 In saying eloquence meant "Action, action!"

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley

"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 Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

It was not so when the eloquence of Demosthenes          ‘shook the arsenal, And fulmined over Greece.’

From Cities of the Dawn by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)