Both Uses of
ferment
in
War and Peace
- In 1789 a ferment arises in Paris; it grows, spreads, and is expressed by a movement of peoples from west to east.†
Chpt 15 *
- Is the ferment of the peoples of the west at the end of the eighteenth century and their drive eastward explained by the activity of Louis XIV, XV, and XVI, their mistresses and ministers, and by the lives of Napoleon, Rousseau, Diderot, Beaumarchais, and others?†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(ferment as in: ferment grapes) chemically change by a living agent -- such as when yeast or bacteria changes sugar to alcohol when making wine