Obs. or arch. [ad. L. ferrūminātiōn-em, n. of action f. ferrūmināre; see prec.] The action of cementing together.
1612. Woodall, The Surgeons Mate, Wks. (1653), 271. Ferrumination is the joyning together of a fracture in one and the same Metal, or of divers Metals, by a Mineral flux.
1657. Tomlinson, Renou’s Disp., 124. If it be catagmatical, it [an Emplaster] helps the ferrumination of broken bones.
fig. 1817. Coleridge, Biog. Lit., 10. I mention this by way of elucidating one of the most ordinary processes in the ferrumination of these centos.
