fulmenn.
/ˈfʊlmɛn/, /ˈfʌlmɛn/, U.S. /ˈfʊlmɛn/, /ˈfəlmɛn/ A thunderbolt, esp. (in later use) as the attribute of the Roman god Jupiter; a symbolic representation of this (in art, on a coin, etc.). Also figurative.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > thunder and lightning > [noun] > lightning > stroke of > thunderbolt
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1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors iii. f. 27v The moste dangerus, violent, & hurtfull, kinde of lightning is called Fulmen.
1582 S. Batman Vppon Bartholome, De Proprietatibus Rerum xi. xv. f. 164/2 The lightening that is called Fulmen, is vapour sette on fire, and..is of more strength then the lightening that is called Fulgur.
1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi v. 125 Fulmen is an Exhalation..mixed with so many other vapours of a contrary nature, that when it breaketh the cloud wherein it is inclosed, it comes with such a violence, and continues burning so long, that it falleth even to the very ground.
1684 I. Mather Ess. for Recording Illustrious Providences 112 The Fulmen or Thunder-bolt is the same with the Lightning.
1719 W. Whiston Acct. Surprizing Meteor 28 That Fulmen..still accompanied with that Fulgur or Flash, we call common Lightening.
1747 J. Spence Polymetis ii. vi. 49 In his right hand..he grasps his fulmen; his thunder, as we are used to translate that word, improperly enough.
1812 Examiner 25 May 328/1 We recognise the..god..by his fulmen.
1841 R. W. Hamilton Nugai Literariae 396 Reasoning cannot find such a mine of thought, nor eloquence such a fulmen of expression.
1889 S. W. Stevenson Dict. Rom. Coins 113/2 Jupiter hurling the fulmen at a prostrated figure.
1904 Numismatic Chron. 4 23 Another set of these coins has the fulmen above the lion.
1983 R. L. S. Cowley Marriage A-la-mode i. 43 One hand holds pagan symbols, the fulmen, and the other points to a Christian emblem.
2015 G. D. Stiebel in S. Marzel & G. D. Stiebel Dress & Ideology iii. viii. 160 The popularity of Jupiter is attested by the fulmen known on slingshots and shields.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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