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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

... unhappy situation of its neighbor. But as the abilities and good fortune of Henry had sooner been able to compose the English factions, this prince began, in the latter part of his reign, to look abroad, and to foment the animosities between the families of Burgundy and Orleans, by which the government of France was, during that period, so much distracted. He knew that one great source of the national discontent against his predecessor was the inactivity of his ...

— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part B. - From Henry III. to Richard III. • David Hume

... many interruptions from the Angekoks, who tried more than once to bewitch him, but finally gave it up, convinced that he was a great medicine-man himself, and therefore invulnerable. But before that they tried to foment a regular mutiny, the colony being by that time well under way, and Egede had to arrest and punish the leaders. The natives naturally clung to them, and when Egede had mastered their language and tried to ...

— Hero Tales of the Far North • Jacob A. Riis

... Codomannus had thus ample warning of what he had to expect, and abundant opportunity to make the fullest preparations for defence. During the years B.C. 338 and 337, while Philip was still alive, he did do something towards organising defensive measures, collected troops and ships, and tried to foment discontent and encourage anti-Macedonian movements in Greece.[14351] But the death of Philip by the dagger of Pausanias caused him most imprudently to relax his efforts, to consider the danger past, and to suspend the operations, which he ...

— History of Phoenicia • George Rawlinson

... Vychan in the possession of their ancestral rights. The tie between the brothers had therefore been more closely drawn, and Wendot's responsibility for the submissive behaviour of the turbulent twins had made him keep a constant eye upon them, and had withheld them on their side from attempting to foment the small and fruitless struggles against English authority which were from time to time arising between the border-land chief and the Lords ...

— The Lord of Dynevor • Evelyn Everett-Green

... 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 ...

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

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