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)
- (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
- c. 1810-1820?, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Ben Jonson
References
- “ferruminate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.