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fulminating, ppl. a.|ˈfʌlmɪneɪtɪŋ|
[f. fulminate v. + -ing2.]
That fulminates.
1. a. Detonating, violently explosive.
fulminating gold, fulminating mercury, fulminating platinum, fulminating silver, various fulminates or salts of fulminic acid. fulminating pane (see quot. 1879). fulminating powder, formerly, a mixture of nitre, potash, and sulphur; now sometimes applied to other violently explosive powders, chiefly containing fulminate of mercury.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. ii. v. 89 These afford no fulminating report. 1665Hooke Microgr. 35 These I found to have quite lost all their fulminating or flying quality. 1691Ray Creation i. (1704) 80 For fulminating Engines. 1695Woodward Nat. Hist. Earth iv. (1723) 227 The Fulminating Damp will take Fire at a Candle. 1794J. Hutton Philos. Light, etc. 210 This fulminating composition. 1804T. G. Fessenden Terrible Tractoration 142 Sound Discord's jarring tocsin louder, Than Howard's fulminating powder. 1807T. Thomson Chem. (ed. 3) II. 12 This powder is fulminating gold, which is composed of five parts of yellow oxide of gold and one part of ammonia. Ibid. 423 Mr. Howard..has given it the name of fulminating mercury. 1858Greener Gunnery 22 Nothing can resist the exceeding intensity of the action of fulminating powder. 1879Rossiter Dict. Sci. Terms, Fulminating pane, glass plate coated on each side with tin-foil, which, when electrified, can be discharged with a spark. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 146/2 Fulminating silver, even when moist, will explode by percussion.
b. Producing a brilliant flash when ignited.
1676Lister in Ray's Corr. (1848) 124 The fulminating powder, which the spikes of Muscus Lycopod. yield.
2. fig. That thunders or hurls forth censures, denunciations, or the like; also, that is thundered forth.
1626T. H[awkins] Caussin's Holy Crt. 127 Rome, from whence came all the fulminating thunders, and bloudy Edicts agaynst Christians. a1693Urquhart Rabelais iii. xii. 93 A powerful and fulminating Goddess. 1734tr. Rollin's Anc. Hist. (1827) II. ii. 91 This fulminating decree. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. 16 All things in this his fulminating bull are not of so innoxious a tendency. a1839Praed Poems (1864) II. 273 Hits Sent slyly out by little wits, A fulminating breed.
3. Path. Of a disease: coming on suddenly with intense severity; foudroyant; = fulminant a. 2.
1875R. B. Carter Pract. Treat. Dis. Eye xi. 413 The ‘fulminating’ form [of glaucoma] differs from the acute only in the extreme degree of tension, [etc.]. 1900in Dorland Med. Dict. 1908Brit. Med. Jrnl. 22 Aug. 477/1 Two cases of fulminating pyorrhœa alveolaris specifica. 1910Practitioner Feb. 204 Fulminating cases of infection with virulent organisms. 1964M. Hynes Med. Bacteriol. (ed. 8) x. 135 A fulminating gastro⁓enteritis which is commonly fatal. 1970R. M. Goodman Genetic Disorders Man xvii. 871/2 The disease [sc. galactosemia] may be fulminating and result in early death. |