FOMENT

foment

(verb) bathe with warm water or medicated lotions; “His legs should be fomented”

agitate, foment, stir up

(verb) try to stir up public opinion

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Verb

foment (third-person singular simple present foments, present participle fomenting, simple past and past participle fomented)

To incite or cause troublesome acts; to encourage; to instigate.

(medicine) To apply a poultice to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge.

Synonym: beath

Noun

foment (plural foments)

Fomentation.

Source: Wiktionary

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Fo*ment", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fomented; p. pr. & vb. n. Fomenting.] Etym: [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. 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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