fervescent

From Latin fervescens, present participle of fervescere (“to become boiling hot, inchoate”), from fervere. See fervent.

• Rhymes: -ɛsənt

fervescent (comparative more fervescent, superlative most fervescent)

1. (archaic) Growing hotter.
   • 1897 May 13, “Run Here, Somebody”, in The Montgomery Advertiser, volume LXVII (old series) / XXXII (new series), number 291, Montgomery, Ala.: The Advertiser Co., →OCLC, page 4, column 2:

     Where’s the argentiferous wind-jammer of Nebraska whose fervescent oratory knocked the Chicago Convention head over heels?

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

fervēscent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of fervēscō