Meanings
nounferrumination (uncountable)
- obsoleteuncountableThe soldering or uniting of metals.
Now look out in the Gradus for Purus, and you find as the first synonime, lacteus; for coloratus, and the first synonime is purpureus. I mention this by way of elucidating one of the most ordinary processes in the ferrumination of these centos.
1817, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “The Motives of the Present Work—Reception of the Author’s First Publication—The Discipline of His Taste at School—The Effect of Contemporary Writers on Youthful Minds—[William Lisle] Bowles’s Sonnets—Comparison between the Poets before and since Mr. [Alexander] Pope”, in Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, volume I, London: Rest Fenner, […], →OCLC, footnote, page 21
Origin
- Latinferruminatio
- Englishferrumination
Latin ferruminatio: compare French ferrumination.
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