fulmine
verb/ˈfʌlmɪn/ · /ˈfʊlmɪn/
Etymology Borrowed from French fulminer, from Latin fulminō (“lighten, illuminate”). More at fulminate.
1
Archaic To thunder or lightning.
- And ever and anone the rosy red Flasht through her face, as it had been a flake Of lightning through bright heven fulmined […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
2
Archaic, Figuratively To utter with authority or vehemence; fulminate.
- She fulmined out her scorn of laws Salique.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:
- Derived terms
- fulmination