Foment
Foment , transitive verb
[French fomenter, from Latin fomentare, from fomentum (for fovimentum) a warm application or lotion, from fovere to warm or keep warm; perh. akin to Greek {not transcribed} to roast, and English 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. [Obsolete]
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. — Locke
But quench the choler you foment in vain.
Exciting and fomenting a religious rebellion.
Foment , noun
1.
Fomentation.
2.
State of excitation; -- perh. confused with ferment.
He came in no conciliatory mood, and the foment was kept up.