Hypertext Webster Gateway: "foment"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Foment \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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Foment \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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

foment
v : try to stir up public opinion [syn: {agitate}, {stir up}]

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