Fulminate \Ful"mi*nate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fulminated; p. pr. & vb. n. Fulminating.]

[L. fulminatus, p. p. of fulminare to lighten, strike with lightning, fr. fulmen thunderbolt, fr. fulgere to shine. See Fulgent, and cf. Fulmine.]

1. To thunder; hence, to make a loud, sudden noise; to detonate; to explode with a violent report.

2. To issue or send forth decrees or censures with the assumption of supreme authority; to thunder forth menaces.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Fulminate \Ful"mi*nate\, v. t.

1. To cause to explode. --Sprat.

2. To utter or send out with denunciations or censures; -- said especially of menaces or censures uttered by ecclesiastical authority.

They fulminated the most hostile of all decrees. --De Quincey.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Fulminate \Ful"mi*nate\, n. [Cf. P. fulminate. See Fulminate, v. i.]

(Chem.)
   (a) A salt of fulminic acid. See under Fulminic.
   (b) A fulminating powder.

Fulminate of gold, an explosive compound of gold; -- called also fulminating gold, and aurum fulminans.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)