WORD FOR THE DAY, JANUARY 30, 2007, TUESDAY, FULMINATE

Merriam-Webster | Slip 18

[Slip18]

January 30, 2007, Tuesday, FULMINATE

In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of “word for the day”. Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the “word of the day”; in a sentence. The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. Practice makes perfect.....post on....

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Subbie Slip has her whip, handcuffs and legcuffs today. Tomorrow I’m bringing in chains, so beware.

The rest of the stuff is locked up in my drawer. I’m just letting all the new students know that we behave as if we were ladies and gentlemen in here. Those two words “as if” can get you an A if you make the subbie laugh.

FULMINATE

Pronunciation: ful-mi-‘nate
Function: Verb
Inflected Form(s): -nat·ed; -nat·ing

Etymology: Middle English, from Medieval Latin fulminatus, past participle of fulminare, from Latin, to strike (of lightning), from fulmin-, fulmen lightning; akin to Latin flagrare to burn.

transitive verb:

1: To utter or send out with denunciation (fulminate a decree)

intransitive verb:

1: To send forth censures or invectives - ful·mi·na·tion

Noun

Etymology: fulminic acid, from Latin fulmin-, fulmen

1: An often explosive salt (as mercury fulminate) containing the group -CNO

*Cyber fulminates that poor sweet little Simba every morning.*

[SoothingDave]

Give him time, it isn't easy to find a picture of a Dallas Cowboy with a three-digit uniform number.

[SoothingDave]

Rugs, carpets, etc. just sound distasteful. LOL

[VRWCmember]

New Classroom Here

[xsmommy]

how do you feel about hardwood?

[Hegewisch Dupa]

would prefer to be kneeling at the gates of heaven myself...

[Focault's Pendulum]

It's a joke about Focault's Pendulum's t-shirt. He's owed that to me for four years for being the 700th person on his thread.

They're almost done.