- To thunder; hence, to make a loud, sudden noise; to
detonate; to explode with a violent report. - To issue or send forth decrees or censures with the
assumption of supreme authority; to thunder forth menaces. - To cause to explode. - To utter or send out with denunciations or censures;
-- said especially of menaces or censures uttered by ecclesiastical
authority. - A salt of fulminic acid. See under Fulminic. - A fulminating powder.