ferruminate

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) To solder or unite, as for example 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

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for ferruminate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)