FOMENT

v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To apply a warm lotion to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge wet with warm water or medicated liquid.

2.
v.

To cherish with heat; to foster. [Obs.] Which these soft fires . . . foment and warm. Milton.

3.
v.

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.

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