ferruminate

Borrowed from Latin ferrūminātus, perfect passive participle of ferrūminō (“to cement, solder”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from ferrūmen (“cement”).

ferruminate (third-person singular simple present ferruminates, present participle ferruminating, simple past and past participle ferruminated)

1. (obsolete, transitive, usually figurativr) To solder, fuse together, merge or unite, as if metals.
   • c. 1810-1820?, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Ben Jonson

     too many other passages ferruminated by Jonson from Seneca's tragedies and the writings of the later Romans

• “ferruminate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.