ferruminate

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin ferrūminātus, perfect passive participle of ferrūminō (“to cement, solder”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from ferrūmen (“cement”). === 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 === References === “ferruminate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.