in chemistry, is used in a synonymous sense with detonation. Fulmination in the depuration of the more perfect metals, is, when, upon infusing them with lead, a brighter colour succeeds a kind of sulphureous cloud, before appearing in the metals, during the fusion.

the Roman canon law, a sentence of a bishop, official, or other ecclesiastic appointed by the pope, by which it is decreed, that some bull sent from the pope shall be executed.