fulminate: [15] Etymologically, fulminate means ‘strike with lightning’. It comes from Latin fulmināre, a derivative of fulmen ‘lightning’. In medieval Latin its literal meaning gave way to the metaphorical ‘pronounce an ecclesiastical censure on’, and this provided the semantic basis for its English derivative fulminate, although in the 17th and 18th centuries there were sporadic learned reintroductions of its original meteorological sense: ‘Shall our Mountains be fulminated and thunder-struck’, William Sancroft, Lex ignea 1666.
fulminate (v.)
early 15c., "publish a 'thundering' denunciation; hurl condemnation (at an offender)," a figurative use, from Latin fulminatus, past participle of fulminare "hurl lightning, lighten," figuratively "to thunder," from fulmen (genitive fulminis) "lightning flash," related to fulgor "lightning," fulgere "to shine, flash," from PIE *bhleg- "to shine, flash," from root *bhel- (1) "to shine, flash, burn" (see bleach (v.)). Metaphoric sense (the oldest in English) in reference to formal condemnation is from Medieval Latin fulminare, used of formal ecclesiastical censures. Related: Fulminated; fulminating.
实用例句
1. The newspapers fulminate against the crime.
报纸严厉谴责这个罪行.
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2. Trinitrotriazidobenzene is less sensitive to impact and friction than mercury fulminate.
三硝基三叠氮苯的摩擦感度和冲击感度比雷汞低.
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3. Mercury fulminate may contain trace of mercuric oxalate.
雷汞中可能含有微量的乙二酸汞.
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4. An explosive salt of fulminic acid fulminate of mercury.
雷酸形成的一种盐或酯.
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5. An explosive salt of fulminic acid , especially fulminate of mercury.
