ppl. a. and sb. [a. F. fulminant, or ad. its original L. fulminant-em, pr. pple. of fulmināre: see FULMINATE v.]

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  A.  adj.

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  1.  = FULMINATING, in various senses.

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1602.  Fulbecke, Pandectes, 78. Let … his fulminant foolish deity … bee measured by the law of God.

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1681.  H. More, Exp. Dan. ii. 46. Who … had power over Purgatory and Hell, thither to strike innocent Souls by his fulminant Excommunications.

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1693.  Salmon, Bates’ Dispens. (1713), 319/1. This Fulminant Gold put into a Silver Spoon, or Ladle, and held over the Fire, will give a louder Bounce.

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1818.  Moore, Fudge Fam. Paris, vii. 99.

        Fierce was the cry, and fulminant the ban,—
‘Assassinate, who will—enchain, who can,
The vile, the faithless, outlaw’d, low-born man!’

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1872.  Blackie, Lays Highl., 117. From whom the fulminant Frenchman knew defeat.

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  2.  Path. Developing suddenly.

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1876.  trans. Wagner’s Gen. Pathol., 104. The fulminant forms of anthrax.

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1887.  Med. News, L. 8 Jan., 41/1. The glandular alterations were especially pronounced in fulminant cases.

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  B.  sb. Something that thunders or explodes; a thunderbolt, an explosive. rare.

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1808.  J. Barlow, The Columbiad, VIII. 557.

        He bids conflicting fulminants expire
The guided blast, and holds the imprison’d fire.

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1891.  Chambers’ Encycl., s.v. Mandeville, This book was a pothouse fulminant, levelled against the ethical theories of Shaftesbury.

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