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foment
c.1400 (implied in
fomentation
), from M.Fr.
fomenter,
from L.L.
fomentare,
from L.
fomentum
"warm application, poultice," from
fovere
"to warm, cherish, encourage." Extended sense of "stimulate, instigate" (1622) was in the Fr.
