v. Obs. or arch. [f. L. ferrūmināt-, ppl. stem of ferrūmināre to cement, f. ferrūmen cement, f. ferrum iron.] trans. To cement, solder, unite.
1623. in Cockeram.
a. 1641. Bp. Mountagu, Acts & Mon., iv. § 53 (1642), 281. A course directly tending to break asunder that which he intended to ferruminate and to foment, agreement and love amongst his children, and in his house.
1630. Charleton, Paradoxes, Prol. 23. The Terrestriall Atomes are fixed, coagmentated, and ferruminated into a solid Concretion.
1657. Tomlinson, Renou’s Disp., 399*. The flave [Boras] is best for ferruminating gold.
fig. 1819. Coleridge, Lit. Rem. (1836), II. 275. Other passages ferruminated by Jonson from Seneca’s tragedies.
