"brutum fulmen" meaning in English

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          "text": "... 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.",
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          "text": "Generally speaking the making of an order which will be a brutum fulmen serves no good purpose of justice.",
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          "ref": "1987, Cal. Ct. App., Lazzaroni v. Larson:",
          "text": "The later order of May 8, 1984, purporting also to declare the same declaration of trust void and revoked, accomplished nothing. It was a brutum fulmen.",
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          "ref": "1733, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, Dissertation Upon Parties, page 53:",
          "text": "All These would have been Blasts of Wind, bruta Fulmina, no more, if the King had yielded ...",
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          "ref": "1824, William Henry Pyne, Wine and Walnuts, page 301:",
          "text": "'But nobody heeds you, my worthy; it's mere waste of powder—shooting at emptiness, brutum fulmen—mere play-house thunder ...'",
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          "ref": "1840, Adolphus Slade, Travels in Germany and Russia, page 269:",
          "text": "... he owed his success to the threat to march on the capital, which would have been a brutum fulmen had it been capable of withstanding a siege.",
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        "(archaic) An empty threat."
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        },
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        },
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          "text": "... he owed his success to the threat to march on the capital, which would have been a brutum fulmen had it been capable of withstanding a siege.",
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