Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to thunder or lightning.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of, or concerning thunder.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
thunder .
Etymologies
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Latin fulmen thunder.
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Examples
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Yet however if the Flame set Fire to two, three, or more fulmineous Tracts, each of them at last will end in a Clap, and thus several Sounds may be heard together, or quickly succeeding one another.
The Shepherd of Banbury's Rules to Judge of the Changes of the Weather, Grounded on Forty Years' Experience John Claridge
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For sulphureous Exhalations bursting out together with the Waters, the fulmineous Matter in the Air is set on Fire when it meets with Exhalations or Vapours with which it can excite a vehement Effervescence.
The Shepherd of Banbury's Rules to Judge of the Changes of the Weather, Grounded on Forty Years' Experience John Claridge
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