a. [ad. F. fulminatoire, f. L. fulmināre: see FULMINATE v. and -ORY.] Sending forth fulminations, thundering.
1611. Cotgr., Fulminatoire, fulminatorie, thundering, lightening, destroying, terrible.
165681. in Blount, Glossogr.
172192. in Bailey.
1820. Examiner, No. 641. 475/2. One of the framers of the fulminatory preamble.
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., II. V. ii. Its speculatory Height or Mountain, which will become a practical fulminatory Height.
1840. J. Quincy, Hist. Harvard Univ., I. 134. The Mathers, however, began soon to be aware, that some of the pillars of the early churches of the Province were not prepared to give support to their violent and fulminatory measures.