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noun

Foment n.

1.

Fomentation.

2.

State of excitation; perh. confused with ferment. "He came in no conciliatory mood, and the foment was kept up."

verb

Foment v. t. (past & past part. fomented; pres. part. fomenting)

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."

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. " But quench the choler you foment in vain." " Exciting and fomenting a religious rebellion."

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"Foment" Quotes from Famous Books

... Moors overran the kingdom, there was nothing that more excited their hostility than these virgin asylums. The very sight of a convent-spire was sufficient to set their Moslem blood in a foment, and they sacked it with as fierce a zeal as though the sacking of a nunnery were a sure ...

— Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies • Washington Irving

... I cannot be thoroughly wild, it is but proper that I should make an endeavour to be thoroughly civil. Why foment a quarrel ...

— Glimpses of Bengal • Sir Rabindranath Tagore

... the question of dealing with the international situation, partly diplomatic and partly financial. France, increasingly unfriendly to Great Britain, was above all unfriendly in regard to Egypt: while Bismarck, doing his best to foment this quarrel, was at the same time weakening Great Britain by menaces in Africa and Australasia, and the danger of a Russian advance in Central Asia hung like a thundercloud over the whole situation. [Footnote: Sir Charles wrote to Mr. Brett on November 15th, 1884: ...

— The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Vol. 2 • Stephen Gwynn

... the principal leaders by a stratagem and hurried to Madrid to reveal all and claim credit for saving the crown. The ringleaders were imprisoned and the troops were distributed into cantonments. As it turned out this only served to foment the growing spirit of dissatisfaction ...

— A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year - Volume Two (of Three) • Edwin Emerson

... intelligence in France, and conspiring against the internal and external security of the state."—FOURTH, "That he was at the head of a body of French emigrants, paid by England, formed on the frontiers of France, in the districts of Friburg and Baden."—FIFTH, "Of having attempted to foment intrigues at Strasburg, with a view of producing a rising in the adjacent departments, for the purpose of operating a diversion favourable to England."—SIXTH, "That be was one of those concerned in the conspiracy planned by England for ...

— Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. Volume 2 • Henry Hunt

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