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Definition of Foments

Foment
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.
Foment
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.

Meaning of Foments from wikipedia

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- treaty. The Dowager died in 1908 and the dynasty imploded in 1911. The fomenters of the Xinhai Revolution of 1911 sought to replace Qing rule with a republic...
- on 31 October 1956. Between 1946 and 1951, the Communist Party of India fomented the Telangana uprising against the feudal lords of the Telangana region...
- significant questions in England. The British began to regard him as the fomenter of serious trouble. Hopes for a peaceful solution ended as he was systematically...
- "either mistaken or not telling the truth", while Bondi accused Cooper of fomenting "anger and hate". In August 2018, while still serving as Florida attorney...
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- Commerce and Communication Roads 21 March 1925 - 3 October 1927 Ministry of Foment 3 October 1927 - 21 October 1942 Ministry of Public Works and Communication...
- of Persia". According to British versions of history, he "attempted to foment trouble for the British" in the Persian Gulf in the First World War. Wilhelm...
- private enterprise. In 2021, Facebook was cited as playing a role in the fomenting of the 2021 United States Capitol attack. In 2018, Special Counsel Robert...
- Seraing' and his rigours and mistakes from 1791 to 1792 created a state of foment and good conditions for France to take over Liège, which had been a pro-French...