ferruminate

English

Etymology

From Latin ferruminatus, p.p. of ferruminare (to cement, solder), from ferrumen (cement), from ferrum (iron).

Verb

ferruminate (third-person singular simple present ferruminates, present participle ferruminating, simple past and past participle ferruminated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive, usually figurativr) To solder, fuse together, merge or unite, as if metals.
    • c. 1810-1820?, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Ben Jonson
      too many other passages ferruminated by Jonson from Seneca's tragedies and the writings of the later Romans

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