Fulmen

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Lightning; a thunderbolt.
  • Word Usage
    "A most frequent and ordinary cause of melancholy, [1572] fulmen perturbationum (Picolomineus calls it) this thunder and lightning of perturbation, which causeth such violent and speedy alterations in this our microcosm, and many times subverts the good estate and temperature of it."
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