Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FUL'MI-NATE, v.i. [L. fulmino, from fulmen, thunder, from a root in Bl, which signifies to throw or to burst forth.]

1. To thunder. Davies.
2. To make a loud sudden noise, or a sudden sharp crack; to detonate; as, fulminating gold. Boyle.
3. To hurl papal thunder; to issue forth ecclesiastical censures, as the pope. Herbert.