Anathematize vs Fulminate - What's the difference?
anathematize | fulminate |
To cause to be, or to declare as, an anathema or evil.
*1850 , , White Jacket , ch. 3:
*:These are the fellows that some officers never pretend to damn, however much they may anathematize others.
*1907 , , Rowdy of the Cross L , ch. 9:
*:Rowdy had been heard, more than once lately, to anathematize viciously the prairie-dogs for standing on their tails and chipchip-chipping at them as they went by.
*2009 , Candace de Russy, "
*:Harvard economist Robert Barro anathematized it as "probably the worst bill that has been put forth since the 1930s" and, in a word, "garbage."
(figuratively) To make a verbal attack.
(figuratively) To issue as a denunciation.
* De Quincey
To strike with lightning; to cause to explode.
* 2009 , Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice , Vintage 2010, p. 235:
(chemistry) Any salt or ester of fulminic acid, mostly explosive.
* 1977 , (Alistair Horne), A Savage War of Peace , New York Review Books 2006, p. 193:
As a verb anathematize
is to cause to be, or to declare as, an anathema or evil.As a noun fulminate is
.anathematize
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Alternative forms
* anathematiseVerb
Madness, Thy Name Is 'Stimulus'," American Thinker , 13 Feb. (retrieved 21 Feb. 2009):
Synonyms
* condemn, damn, deprecate, excoriate, vilifyDerived terms
* anathematization * anathematizerfulminate
English
(wikipedia fulminate)Verb
- They fulminated the most hostile of all decrees.
- the present owners couldn't afford the electric bills anymore, several amateur gaffers, sad to say, having already been fulminated trying to bootleg power in off the municipal lines.
Synonyms
* (verbal attack) berate, condemn, criticize, denounce, denunciate, vilifyNoun
(en noun)- On 19 February a jubilant Bigeard announced that his 3rd R.P.C. had seized eighty-seven bombs, seventy kilos of explosive, 5,120 fulminate of mercury detonators, 309 electric detonators, etc.