brutum fulmen

名词 n.
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英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A judgement without effect.
    — ... it was a question only whether the one hundred and eighty inconsistent canons thus added to the Corpus Juris of the Church would remain a mere brutum fulmen, or whether they would be the source of endless litigation and schism.
  2. An empty threat. archaic
    — All These would have been Blasts of Wind, bruta Fulmina, no more, if the King had yielded ...

词形变化

bruta fulmina plural fulmen brutum alternative

词源

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).
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