Both Uses of
ferment
in
Bleak House
- …of his congregation with his eye and fatly arguing his points with that particular person, who is understood to be expected to be moved to an occasional grunt, groan, gasp, or other audible expression of inward working, which expression of inward working, being echoed by some elderly lady in the next pew and so communicated like a game of forfeits through a circle of the more fermentable sinners present, serves the purpose of parliamentary cheering and gets Mr. Chadband's steam up.†
Chpt 25-27 *
- For all this, the court discovers nothing; and as Mrs. Piper and Mrs. Perkins now communicate to the late lodger whose appearance is the signal for a general rally, it is in one continual ferment to discover everything, and more.†
Chpt 37-39
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