v. [ad. L. fulmin-āre: see FULMINATE v..]
1. trans. To send forth (lightning or thunder).
1590. Spenser, F. Q., III. ii. 5. As it had beene a flake Of lightning through bright heven fulmined.
1830. W. Phillips, Mt. Sinai, IV. 381. A sound As ’twere of thunder fulmined nigh at hand, O’erwhelm’d his hearing.
b. fig. To ‘thunder’ or flash out.
1847. Tennyson, The Princess, II. 118. She fulmined out her scorn of laws Salique And little-footed China.
2. intr. To ‘thunder,’ speak out fiercely or energetically. Now chiefly in echoes of Milton’s use (quot. 1671).
1623. trans. Favine’s Theat. Hon., II. xiii. 276. He had interdicted and fulmined against the Emperour.
1671. Milton, P. R., IV. 270. Whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce Democratic, Shook the Arsenal and fulmined over Greece.
c. 1820. S. Rogers, Italy, Luigi, 35. How unlike him who fulmined in old Rome!
1870. Lowell, Study Wind., 384. My excited fancy set me under the bema listening to him who fulmined over Greece.
