Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act of fomenting; incitement.
- n. A substance or material used as a warm, moist medicinal compress; a poultice.
- n. The therapeutic application of warmth and moisture, as to relieve pain.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of heating, warming, or cherishing; warmth.
- n. In medicine: The act of applying warm liquids to a part of the body, by means of flannels or other cloths dipped in them.
- n. The liquid thus applied.
- n. Excitation; instigation; encouragement.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of fomenting; the application of warm, soft, medicinal substances, as for the purpose of easing pain, by relaxing the skin, or of discussing tumors.
- n. The lotion applied to a diseased part.
- n. Excitation; instigation; encouragement.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of fomenting; the application of warm, soft, medicinal substances, as for the purpose of easing pain, by relaxing the skin, or of discussing tumors.
- n. The lotion applied to a diseased part.
- n. Excitation; instigation; encouragement.
WordNet 3.0
- n. deliberate and intentional triggering (of trouble or discord)
- n. a substance used as a warm moist medicinal compress or poultice
- n. application of warm wet coverings to a part of the body to relieve pain and inflammation
Examples
“Another kind of fomentation is composed of dried poppyheads, 4 oz.”
“Perhaps it's well past time to hit the real source of this fomentation - the Iranian Mullahs.”
“Three years later, it is the imam who the majority of Americans believe is engaging in "willful fomentation.”
“He called it "willful fomentation" and "gratuitous" to republish them throughout Europe.”
“If we condemn Ahmadinejad and other patrons of terrorism, we must, with equal force, commend those Muslim intellectuals and religious leaders who have the courage to speak out publicly against the continued fomentation of Holocaust denial and other manifestations of Judaeophobia in their midst.”
“Applying hot packs to the spine, hot or cold foot bath and hot fomentation to the spine before going to bed are all proven methods.”
“Hot fomentation should be applied to open up the skin pores and squeeze out the waste matter.”
“Turpentine may also be rubbed over the chest with fomentation for the same object.”
“Other useful measures found helpful in cervical spondylytis are a mild massage of oil to the head, shoulders and neck, hot fomentation for about six minutes twice a day and six to seven minutes of exposure to infra red rays.”
“There are several widely accepted methods of hydro-therapeutic treatment, chiefly among which are enema, hip-bath, steam bath, the full sheet pack, local wet packs, hot foot bath, spinal bath, localized fomentation by steam, etc.”
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Interesting words
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
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Tweets
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chained_bear "'...unless or until we can fashion and ship a rudder...'
'If you spend another two minutes up to your neck in water at this temperature, striving to do so, I will not answer for your life,' said Stephen. 'Last time it was nip and tuck, with hot blanket, fomentations, and half a pint of my best brandy.'"
--P. O'Brian, The Wine-Dark Sea, 256 Mar 16, 2008