FULMINATE: 1: to utter or send out with denunciation 2: to send forth censures or invectives
They say lightning never strikes the same place twice. Maybe not, but it flashes more than once in the history of fulminate." That word comes from the Latin fulminare, meaning "to strike" and usually used to refer to lightning strikes - not surprising since it sprang from fulmen, the Latin word for "lightning." When "fulminate" came into English in the 15th century, it lost much of its spark and was used largely as a technical term for the issuing of formal denunciations by ecclesiastical authorities. But its original use remains in its suggestion of tirades so vigorous that, as one 18th-century bishop put it, they seem to be delivered "with the air of one who (has) divine Vengeance at his disposal."
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