a. [f. assumed L. *fermentīci-us (f. fermentum FERMENT sb.) + -OUS.] Of a fermenting or effervescent nature.
1807. A. Knox, Let. Butterworth, Rem. (1834), I. 67. It can deceive us by no fermentitious feeling. Ibid. (1820), Let. H. More, Rem. (1837), III. 464. Mr. Southey … seems to take … pleasure in shewing off the annoying spectacles of fermentitious religion.
