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Fomentation

noun
1.
A substance used as a warm moist medicinal compress or poultice.
2.
Application of warm wet coverings to a part of the body to relieve pain and inflammation.
3.
Deliberate and intentional triggering (of trouble or discord).  Synonym: instigation.






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"Fomentation" Quotes from Famous Books



... two difficulties in such a course of action, which, though especially urgent in the case of Britain, beset every great country that chooses the same path, and not least, America. The first is the fomentation of a class war, based upon divisions of interests between capital and labor, producer and consumer, protected and unprotected industries. The initial skirmishes of such a conflict are already visible in every country where wages, prices, and profiteering are burning issues. I would most earnestly ...
— Morals of Economic Internationalism • John A. Hobson

... and mortification began to appear. The pain took away my cheerfulness and sleep. I then perceived that it was foolish courage to trifle with so serious an accident. Doctors were called in. They feared at first that it would be necessary to amputate the limb; but, at last, by means of regimen and fomentation, the afflicted member was put into the way of healing. It is singular that, ever since my infancy, my misfortunes have always fallen on this same left leg. In truth, I have always been tempted to believe in destiny; and why not, if, by the word ...
— The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch • Petrarch

... a fomentation?" he said to me after a moment. "No, uncle," I answered, "I feel I am getting better, it is not worth while; I am even going to get up to make you your posset." "To get up, do you dream of it?... All the same, perhaps you are right, there is still some fire in my room: will you come there? ...
— The Grip of Desire • Hector France

... to him. Fenitchka was much frightened when she heard the master had sent for her; however, she followed her mother. Nikolai Petrovitch led her to the window and took her head in his two hands. After thoroughly examining her red and swollen eye, he prescribed a fomentation, which he made up himself at once, and tearing his handkerchief in pieces, he showed her how it ought to be applied. Fenitchka listened to all he had to say, and then was going. 'Kiss the master's hand, silly girl,' said Arina. Nikolai Petrovitch did not give her his hand, and in confusion ...
— Fathers and Children • Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev



Words linked to "Fomentation" :   foment, treatment, initiation, intervention, substance, trigger, compress, induction



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