[f. FESTER v. + -MENT.] a. The process or state of festering. In quots. fig. b. dial. A rotting mass.
1833. Chalmers, Const. Man (1834), II. vii. 5. The brooding fountain of so many heartburnings and so many festerments.
1845. North, Brit. Rev., II. 488. The population of both countries have been thrown, and most naturally, into the festerment of an universal discontent.
1884. Chesh. Gloss., s v. A festerment o’ weeds.
