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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

... retained many Catholic ceremonies, above all that of receiving tithes with a most scrupulous attention. They have also a pious ambition for religious ascendancy, and do what they can to foment a holy zeal against Nonconformists. But a Whig ministry is just now in power, and the Whigs are hostile to Episcopacy. They have prohibited the lower clergy from meeting in convocation, a sort of clerical house ...

— The World's Greatest Books, Volume 19 - Travel and Adventure • Various

... generously break this cursed enchantment, which keeps you buried in a scandalous inaction. Open your eyes and consider the management of those ambitious men, who, to make themselves powerful in their party, study nothing but how they may foment divisions in the commonwealth. ...

— The American Union Speaker • John D. Philbrick

... British shores with an irresistible host of the French democracy. Subsequent events of Napoleon's life must be judged in full view of the dead earnestness with which the Directory cherished this plan. But it was versatile likewise and had a second alternative, to foment rebellions in Persia, Turkey, and Egypt, overrun the latter country, and menace India. This second scheme influenced Bonaparte's career more deeply than the other, both were parts of traditional French policy and cherished by the French public as the great lines for expanding ...

— The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte - Vol. I. (of IV.) • William Milligan Sloane

... your party politics will be caught by this snare; and when you, gentlemen of the south, oppose with energy this tendency, dangerous to your dear principle of self-government, the despots of Europe will first foment and embitter the quarrel and kindle the fire of domestic dissensions, and finally they will declare that your example is dangerous to order. Then foreign armed interference steps in for centralization here, as for monarchy ...

— Select Speeches of Kossuth • Kossuth

... system which oppresses them. But the evil is far deeper than the throne, and cannot be remedied by striking the occupant of it-the throne itself must be rooted out and demolished. So the Irish question has a more powerful motive to foment agitation and murder than the landlord and landlordism. The landlord simply stands out as the representative of the real grievance. To remove him would not remove the evil; agitation would not cease; murder would still stalk abroad at noonday. The real grievance is the ...

— Black and White - Land, Labor, and Politics in the South • Timothy Thomas Fortune

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