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.
Fo`men*ta"tion (?), n. [&?;. fomentatio: cf. F. fomentation.] 1. (Med.)
(a) 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. (b) The lotion applied to a diseased part.