fulmine
See also: fulminé
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Borrowed from French fulminer, from Latin fulminō (“lighten, illuminate”). More at fulminate.
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fulmine (third-person singular simple present fulmines, present participle fulmining, simple past and past participle fulmined)
- (archaic) To thunder or lightning.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- And ever and anone the rosy red
Flasht through her face, as it had been a flake
Of lightning through bright heven fulmined […]
- (archaic, figurative) To utter with authority or vehemence; fulminate.
- 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the page number, or |part=Prologue, I to VII, or conclusion)”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
- She fulmined out her scorn of laws Salique.
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fulmine
- inflection of fulminer:
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fulmine m (plural fulmini)
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fulmine
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fulmine
- inflection of fulminar: