Definition of fulminate

• v. i. - To thunder; hence, to make a loud, sudden noise; to detonate; to explode with a violent report.
• v. i. - To issue or send forth decrees or censures with the assumption of supreme authority; to thunder forth menaces.
• v. t. - To cause to explode.
• v. t. - To utter or send out with denunciations or censures; -- said especially of menaces or censures uttered by ecclesiastical authority.
• v. i. - A salt of fulminic acid. See under Fulminic.
• v. i. - A fulminating powder.