fulminant, ppl. a. and n.
(ˈfʌlmɪnənt)
[a. F. fulminant, or ad. its original L. fulminant-em, pr. pple. of fulmināre: see fulminate v.]
A. adj.
1. = fulminating, in various senses.
| 1602 W. Fulbecke Pandectes 78 Let..his fulminant foolish deity..bee measured by the law of God. 1681 H. More Exp. Dan. ii. 46 Who..had power over Purgatory and Hell, thither to strike innoncent Souls by his fulminant Excommunications. 1693 Salmon Bates' Dispens. (1713) 319/1 This Fulminant Gold. 1818 Moore Fudge Fam. Paris vii. 99 Fierce was the cry and fulminant the ban. 1872 Blackie Lays Highl. 117 From whom the fulminant Frenchman knew defeat. |
2. Path. Developing suddenly.
| 1876 tr. Wagner's Gen. Pathol. 104 The fulminant forms of anthrax. 18.. Med. News L. 41 (Cent.) The glandular alterations were especially pronounced in fulminant cases. |
B. n. Something that thunders or explodes; a thunderbolt, an explosive. rare.
| 1808 J. Barlow Columb. viii. 557 He bids conflicting fulminants expire The guided blast, and holds the imprison'd fire. 1891 Chambers' Encycl. s.v. Mandeville, This book was a pothouse fulminant, levelled against the ethical theories of Shaftesbury. |