Middle English Dictionary Entry
fermenten v.
Entry Info
| Forms | fermenten v. |
| Etymology | OF & L |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Of dough: undergo fermentation; (b) alch. to cause (something) to effervesce, give off heat, and change its properties.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)226b/a : Sour dowe hatte fermentum for it makeþ paste ferment [L feruere] and makeþ it also arise.
b
- a1550 *Ripley CAlch.(BodeMus 63)59a : Fermenting her medcins in this wise.
- a1550 *Ripley CAlch.(BodeMus 63)59b : And so contynue it till all be fixid And well fermentid to thy desier.
- a1550 *Ripley CAlch.(BodeMus 63)60a : Therfore thy golde withe golde thow muste ferment.