Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Sending forth thunders or fulminations; thundering; striking terror.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Thundering; striking terror.
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- adjective
Thundering ; strikingterror .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Corinthian fluted pillars formed its general decoration, and enshrined the four fulminatory inscriptions.
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The liberal newspapers published fulminatory articles; flaming protests were made in the clubs against the surreptitious propaganda of Rome.
Gänsemännchen. English Jakob Wassermann 1903
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Still less is a Cote Gauche wanting: extreme Left; sitting on the topmost benches, as if aloft on its speculatory Height or Mountain, which will become a practical fulminatory Height, and make the name of
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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I have inserted only the fulminatory clause of this inscription, as being that part of it against which
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811
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Corinthian fluted pillars formed its general decoration, and enshrined the four fulminatory inscriptions.
Memoirs of Madame de Montespan — Volume 7 Fran��oise-Ath��na��s de Rochechouart de Mortemart Montespan 1674
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Corinthian fluted pillars formed its general decoration, and enshrined the four fulminatory inscriptions.
Memoirs of Madame de Montespan — Complete Fran��oise-Ath��na��s de Rochechouart de Mortemart Montespan 1674
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` mispronounces 'a word, conservative folk feel the standards of civilization threatened and do the only thing a chap or chapess can do in the circumstances: write a fulminatory letter to The Times.
mtc commented on the word fulminatory
"Fulminatory" includes the word "minatory, and the meanings relate; i.e, sending forth thunders is a warning, all of which might lead you to believe the two words have the same etymology, but in fact they do not. Still, I find the similarities helpful in remembering their meanings.
November 1, 2012