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单词 fulminant
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fulminantadj.n.

Brit. /ˈfʊlmᵻnənt/, /ˈfʌlmᵻnənt/, U.S. /ˈfʊlmənənt/, /ˈfəlmənənt/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin fulminant-, fulmināns, fulmināre.
Etymology: < classical Latin fulminant-, fulmināns (also 1613 in aurum fulminans , or earlier, in an alchemy context), present participle of fulmināre fulminate v. Compare Middle French, French fulminant (second half of the 14th cent. or earlier), Spanish fulminante (1547), Portuguese fulminante (1572), Italian fulminante (1553).In sense A. 2 after French fulminant (1606 or earlier in this sense). In sense A. 3 after Italian fulminante (1832 in colera fulminante, or earlier).
A. adj.
1. = fulminating adj. 1.
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the mind > emotion > anger > furious anger > [adjective] > furiously angry
grim971
aweddeOE
woodlyc1000
anburstc1275
woodc1275
aburstc1300
eagerc1325
brotheful1330
brothely1330
furiousc1374
wroth as (the) wind1377
throc1380
fella1382
wrothlya1400
grindelc1400
raginga1425
furibund1490
bremit1535
outraging1567
fulminant?1578
wood-like1578
horn-mad1579
snuff1582
woodful1582
maddeda1586
rageful1585
furibundal1593
gary1609
fierce1611
wild1653
infuriate1667
hopping mad1675
maddened1735
sulphureous1751
savage1789
infuriated1796
bouncing mad1834
frenzy1859
furyinga1861
ropeable1870
furied1878
fulminous1886
livid1888
fit to be tied1894
hopping1894
fighting mad1896
tamping mad1946
up the wall1951
ravers1967
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > denunciation > [adjective] > violently
fulminant?1578
fulminating1624
?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 16 Az had wee not been assured the fulminant deitee waz all but in amitee..it woold haue made me for my part..very vengeably afeard.
1602 W. Fulbecke Pandectes 78 Let..his fulminant foolish deity..bee measured by the law of God.
1681 H. More Plain Expos. Daniel ii. 46 Who..had power over Purgatory and Hell, thither to strike innoncent Souls by his fulminant Excommunications.
1818 T. Moore Fudge Family in Paris vii. 99 Fierce was the cry and fulminant the ban.
1872 J. S. Blackie Lays of Highlands 117 The iron duke From whom the fulminant Frenchman knew defeat.
1903 Contemp. Rev. Mar. 386 Those men of big words and little faith who, despite their noisy asseverations and fulminant abuse, shrank from vigorous action.
1983 New York 14 Feb. 78/3 Fulminant public anger, threatened lynchings, thrown bottles, scabrous graffiti, smeared dog-merds.
2015 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 24 June a11 Radical feminists exploded in fulminant rage.
2. Chemistry. = fulminating adj. 2b. Now rare and chiefly historical.
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1657 J. Davies tr. G. Naudé Hist. Magick iii. 37 The Fulminant Gold [Fr. or fulminant] of Beguinus, the Vegetall Tree of the Chymists, and many such naturall miracles which these Authours affirme they have seen and experienc'd.
1694 W. Salmon Pharmacopœia Bateana i. ix. 396/2 3j. of this Fulminant Gold put into a Silver Spoon or Ladle; and held over the Fire, will give a louder bounce than..the finest and best Gunpowder.
1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature II. xxxix. 123 But fulminant silver..is still more violent than the aurum fulminans.
1845 U.S. Naut. Mag. 1 151 The circumstances which have attended the manufacture of fulminant mercury adduce sometimes much more remarkable modifications in the proportion of its elements.
1894 tr. P. Mantegazza Art of Taking Wife iii. 74 The combination of an old man and a young woman is a very frail one; at the least shock it is separated, as with fulminant mercury, chloride of azote, and all the infinite array of explosives.
1961 A. Ferri Fund. Data Shock-tube Exper. 349 Spherical detonation waves having the same velocity as plane detonation waves were observed..in mixtures of CS2 + 3O2, and 2H2 + O2, with fulminant mercury as an ignitor.
2015 H. Fors Limits Matter iii. 61 There were some extraordinarily effective gold-based medicines, such as fulminant gold.
3. Medicine. Of a disease or pathological process: becoming very severe or life-threatening, esp. within a short period of time; = fulminating adj. 3.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > characteristics > [adjective] > developing suddenly
fulminant1838
fulminating1866
1838 Brit. & Foreign Med. Rev. 5 235 It is not true Asiatic cholera unless there is an affection of the heart and vascular system, which, in the fulminant cholera (il colera fulminante,) with instant death, is a real paralysis of the heart.
1847 Lancet 13 Nov. 521/2 It would appear marvellous, that apoplexy from excitement, even in its most fulminant form, should prove so suddenly fatal.
1876 J. Van Duyn & E. C. Seguin tr. E. L. Wagner Man. Gen. Pathol. 104 The fulminant forms of anthrax.
1887 Med. News 8 Jan. 41/1 The glandular alterations were especially pronounced in fulminant cases.
1967 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 113 416/2 The fact that such comparatively subtle symptoms..were not recorded may not be very informative in these fulminant psychoses.
2006 L. Collier & J. Oxford Human Virol. (ed. 3) xxii. 170/1 This agent..may have little or no effect on the associated hepatitis B infection, but sometimes causes fulminant hepatitis.
B. n.
Something that fulminates; a thunderbolt; an explosive. Also fig. Now rare.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > explosive material > [noun]
fulminant1807
explosive1836
fulminator1861
1807 J. Barlow Columbiad viii. 308 He [sc. Benjamin Franklin] bids conflicting fulminants expire The guided blast, and holds the imprison'd fire.
1891 Chambers's Encycl. (new ed.) VII. 16/1 This book was a pothouse fulminant, levelled against the ethical theories of Shaftesbury.
1913 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 25 Nov. 984/2 A fulminant in each of said sections at the open end of said housing.
1948 Times 23 Dec. 5/4 A small parcel of sweets, &c., containing a fulminant, which explodes when pulled sharply at both ends.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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