1672. Phil. Trans., VII. 4030. Seeds, which by the vertue of their fermentive Odours perform these transmutations upon Matter.
1674. R. Godfrey, Inj. & Ab. Physic, 2. Were not Diseases themselves … in a manner poysonous and Fermentive.
1888. Athenæum, 25 Feb., 247/3. The fermentive organism is … absolutely essential to the setting up of destructive rotting.
fig. 1656. Artif. Handsom., 104. Nor is it any strange effect of pride, to deny others that which may make them any way our peers, or rivalls in handsomenesse: which is as strong a leaven to puffe the mind, as any thing, and no lesse fermentive, when naturall, than when artificiall.
