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Definitions for: Foment [v] bathe with warm water or medicated lotions; "His legs should be fomented"
[v] try to stir up public opinion
Webster (1913) Definition: Fo*ment", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fomented; p. pr. & vb.
n. Fomenting.] [F. fomenter, fr. L. fomentare, fr. fomentum
(for fovimentum) a warm application or lotion, fr. fovere to
warm or keep warm; perh. akin to Gr. ? to roast, and E.
bake.]
1. To apply a warm lotion to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge
wet with warm water or medicated liquid.
2. To cherish with heat; to foster. [Obs.]
Which these soft fires . . . foment and warm.
--Milton.
3. To nurse to life or activity; to cherish and promote by
excitements; to encourage; to abet; to instigate; -- used
often in a bad sense; as, to foment ill humors. --Locke.
But quench the choler you foment in vain. --Dryden.
Exciting and fomenting a religious rebellion.
--Southey.
Fo"ment, n.
1. Fomentation.
2. State of excitation; -- perh. confused with ferment.
He came in no conciliatory mood, and the foment was
kept up. --Julian
Ralph.
Synonyms: agitate, stir up
See Also: bath, bathe, provoke, rumpus, stimulate
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