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From {{der|en|la|brutum|t=stupid}} + {{m|la|fulmen|t=lightning}}, |
From {{der|en|la|brutum|t=stupid}} + {{m|la|fulmen|t=lightning}}, derived from a 1680 pamphlet by [[w:Thomas Barlow (bishop)|Thomas Barlow]] of that title, originally from a passage of [[w:Pliny the Elder|Pliny]]'s ''[[w:Natural History (Pliny)|Natural History]]'': {{lang|la|"hinc bruta fulmina et vana"}} ("these senseless and ineffectual thunder-claps", intended as a literal description of lightning) |
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Revision as of 20:42, 12 June 2019
English
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Etymology
From Latin brutum (“stupid”) + fulmen (“lightning”), derived from a 1680 pamphlet by Thomas Barlow of that title, originally from a passage of Pliny's Natural History: "hinc bruta fulmina et vana" ("these senseless and ineffectual thunder-claps", intended as a literal description of lightning)
Noun
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- An empty threat.
- 1733, Henry Bolingbroke, Dissertation Upon Parties, page 53:
- All These would have been Blasts of Wind, bruta Fulmina, no more, if the King had yielded ...
- (law) A judgement without effect.
- 1958, Peter Edward Nygh, Conflict of Laws in Australia, page 149:
- Generally speaking the making of an order which will be a brutum fulmen serves no good purpose of justice.