v. Obs. [f. L. fermentāt- ppl. stem of fermentāre, to ferment.] trans. To cause to ferment; to leaven.
1599. A. M., trans. Gabelhouer’s Bk. Physicke, 208/2. He caused lb 6 of rye meale to be fermentatede with sower leaven, as thinne, as a reasonable thicke Pappe, and therin be bathed himselfe.
1615. Crooke, Body of Man, 218. A certaine paste should … bee fermentated … into the form of a man.
1657. Tomlinson, Renou’s Disp., 105. The vessel is insolated by the space of a whole month, or forty dayes, for hereby the Conditure is excellently fermentated, the heat of the Sun permeating every part thereof.
fig. a. 1670. Hacket, Abp. Williams, II. 179. The largest part of the Lords were fermentated with an Anti-episcopal Sourness.
absol. 1656. Ben Israel, Vindiciæ Judæorum, in Phenix (1708), II. 394. Every Confection ought to be so pure, as not to admit of of any Leven, or any thing that may fermentate, which certainly Blood doth.
Hence Fermentated ppl. a.
1656–81. in Blount, Glossogr.
1676–1717. in Coles.
1860. in Worcester (citing Bacon).
