FOMENT', v. a. Beattie. Fr. fomenter; Lat. fomentor. To cherish with FOMENT ER, 1.8. Sheat; to bathe with warm lotions; to encourage; to support; to cherish; to soothe. A fomentation is partial bathing, called also stuping, which is applying hot flannels to any part, dipped in medicated decoctions, whereby the steams breathe into the parts, and discuss obstructed humors. Fomentation calleth forth the humour by vapours; but yet, in regard of the way made by the poultis, draweth gently the humours out; for it is a gentl fomentation, and bath withal a mixture of some stu pefactive. Bacon's Natural History. These fatal distempers, as they did much hurt to the body politick at home, being like humours stirred in the natural without evacuation, so did they produce disadvantageous effects abroad; and better had it been that the raisers and fomenters of them had never sprung up. Howel. Every kind that lives, Thon see'st How sul tly to detain thee I devise, Milton. As we should not be sour, so we ought not to be fond. Barrow. "Twas not revenge for grieved Apollo's wrong Waller. The bent of our own minds may favour any opinion or action, that may shew it to be a fondling of our own. Locke. Like Venus I'll shine, Be fond and be fine. Addison. Prior. I, fond of my well-chosen seat, My pictures, medals, books complete. Any body would have guessed Miss to have been bred up under a cruel stepdame, and John to be the fondling of a tender mother. Arbuthnot's John Bull. Fondly or severely kind. FOMENTATIONS are usually applied as warm as the patient can bear, in the following manner :-Two flannel cloths are dipped into the heated liquor, one of which is wrung as dry as the necessary speed will admit, then immediately applied to the part affected; it lies on until the heat begins to go off, and the other is in readiness to apply at the instant in which the first is removed: thus these flannels are alternately applied, so as to keep the affected part constantly A wretched sylph too fondly interposed: supplied with them warm. This is continued fifteen or twenty minutes, and repeated two or three times a day. Every intention of relaxing and soothing by fomentations may be answered as well by warm water alone, as when emollients are boiled in it; but when discutients or antiseptics are required, such ingredients must be called in as are adapted to that end. The degree of heat should never exceed that of producing a pleasing sensation: great heat produces effects Fate urged the shears, and cut the sylph in twain. They are allowed to kiss the child at meeting and parting; but a professor, who always stands by, will not suffer them to use any fondling expressions. Id. Id. Corinna, with that youthful air, Is thirty, and a bit to spare: Her fondness for a certain earl Began when I was but a girl. Some are so fond to know a great deal at once, and love to talk of things with freedom and boldness before they thoroughly understand them. Watts. This is fond, because it is the way to cheat thyself. stituted a mandarin, with power of governing them independent of the officers of the city This pagod was supported as long as this dynasty lasted; but that of the eastern Tartars, which succeeded, suffered it to fall to ruin. FONSECA (Eleanor, marchioness de), a modern Neapolitan political writer, was born in Naples about 1768, and married the marquis de Fonseca, a Spanish nobleman settled in that city in 1784. She was an attendant on the late queen; but having given offence to her majesty, and the English minister, she was dismissed, and forbidin her studies, and assisted the celebrated Spalden to appear again at court. She now engaged lanzani in his scientific researches. Temple. Tillotson. Your extreme fondness was perhaps as displeasing to Ged before, as now your extreme affliction. Dryden. But reason with your fond religion fights; A touch of hers, his blood would ebb and flow, But she in these fond feelings had no share : Id. Byron. The Dream. Obsolete. FONE, n. s. Plural of foe. A barbarous troop of clownish fone. Spenser. FONG-YANG, a city of China, in the province of Kiang-Nan, situated on a mountain, which hangs over the Yellow River, and encloses with its walls several fertile little hills. Its jurisdiction is very extensive, comprehending eighteen cities; five of which are of the second, and thirteen of the third class. As this was the birth-place of the emperor Hong-Vou, chief of the preceding dynasty, he formed a design of rendering it a magnificent city, and making it the seat of empire. After having expelled the western Tartars, who had taken possession of China, he transferred his court hither, and named the city Fong-Yang, i. e. the Place of the Eagle's Splendor. His intention was to beautify and enlarge it but the inequality of the ground, the scarcity of fresh water, and above all the vicinity of his father's tomb, made him change his design. By the unanimous advice of his principal officers he established his court at Nan-King, and put a stop to the intended works, and nothing was finished but three monuments, which still remain. The extent and magnificence of these show what the beauty of this city would have been, had the emperor pursued his original design. The first is the tomb of his father, to decorate which no expense was spared: it is called Hoan-Lin, or the Royal Tomb. The second is a tower of an oblong form, and 100 feet high. The third is a magnificent temple erected to the god Fo. At first it was only a pagod to which Hong-Vou retired after having lost his parents, and where he was admitted as an inferior domestic (See HONGVov); but, as soon as he mounted the throne, he caused this superb temple to be raised out of gratitude to the Bonzes, who had received him in his distress, and assigned them a revenue sufficient for the maintenance of 300 persons, under a chief of their own sect, whom he con On the breaking out of the French revolution, she became one of its warmest partizans and engaged in various intrigues against her country. In 1799, the king and royal family being obliged to quit Naples, the Lazaroni rose and threatened the lives of those who were in the French interest; among whom the marchioness de Fonseca narrowly escaped their fury. When her party obtained the ascendancy, she commenced the Neapolitan Monitor, a journal in which she vehemently attacked the royal family, and especially the queen. Madame Fonseca was in the zenith of her fame when the measures of cardinal Ruffo obliged the French to quit Naples, and she was persuaded to seek her safety in flight; but she refused, and the cardinal caused her to be arrested. She was hanged July 29th, 1790. FONT, n. s. Lat. fons; Fr. fonte. A stone vessel in which the water for holy baptism is contained in the church. The presenting of infants at the holy font is by their godfathers. Hooker. The time is come, a knave child she bere ; FONT was anciently used for the place, whether river, lake, or artificial reservoir, in which persons received their initiation into Christianity by the ceremony of immersion. It is now generally confined to those marble vessels in the churches in which the water for the sprinkling of infants is kept. Great Britain can boast of many extraordinary fonts highly interesting to the ecclesiastical antiquary. That of Bridekirk, in Cumberland, is allowed to be of Danish origin; and that which was recently removed, in the spirit of modern improvement, from the church of St. Peter in the East, Oxford, exhibited proofs of an antiquity nearly as early. The font in St. Mary's church, Lincoln, dated 1340, is handsome and of good proportions, as is the elaborately sculptured one in Winchester cathedral. FONTAINBLEAU, a town of France, in the department of the Seine and Marne, and chief place of a canton in the district of Melun. It is celebrated for its magnificent palace, once the general autumnal residence of the kings of France. It was erected in the thirteenth century, and considerably improved by Louis XIV. and XV. It is a vast irregular pile of building; surrounded by the forest of Fontainblean, anciently called the forest of Bierre, of a circular form, and said to contain 26,480 acres. The town and chateau stand in the centre. The town principally consists of one street, of considerable length. Hither Buonaparte brought the royal family of Spain, and made a memorable treaty with them, m 1807. Here also he first resigned his imperial dignity. The town is said to contain a population of 9000. FONTAINE (John de la), a celebrated French poet, was born at Chateau-Thierri in Champazne, July 8th, 1621. At nineteen he entered amongst the Oratorians, but quitted that order in eighteen months. At the age of twenty-two, on hearing an ode of Malherbe's read, upon the assassination of Henry IV., he was so taken with it, that the poetical fire, which had before lain dormant within him, seemed to be kindled from that of Malherbe. He read his works with those of the best Latin and Greek authors, as well as the best compositions in French and Italian. Some time afterwards he married a daughter of a lieutenant-general, a relation of the great Racine. Thus young lady was remarkable for the delicacy of her wit, and Fontaine never composed any work without consulting her. The famous duchess of Bouillon, niece to cardinal Mazarine, being exiled to ChateauTherri, took particular notice of Fontaine. Upon her recall, he followed her to Paris, where he obtained a pension, and met with many friends and purons at court. She took him to live at her house, where, divested of domestic concerns, he cultivated an acquaintance with all the great men of the age. It was his custom, after he was fixed at Paris, to go every year, in September, to Chateau-Thierri, and visit his wife, carrying with him Racine, Despreaux, Chapelle, and other celebrated writers. After the death of M. de la Sabliere, he was invited into England, particularly by St. Evremond, who promised him all the comforts of life; but the difficulty of learning English, and the liberality of the duke of Burgundy, prevented his voyage. About the end of 1692 he fell dangerously ill, made a general confession, and, before he received the sacrament, sent for the gentlemen of the French Academy, and in their presence declared his sincere compunction for having composed his Tales; a work which he said he could not reflect upon without the greatest detestation. He survived this illness two years, living in the most exemplary manner, and died 13th of March 1695, aged seventy-four. He had one son by his wife in 1660. At the age of fourteen he put him into the hands of M. de Harlay, the first president, recommending to him his educat.on and fortune. Having been a long time without seeing him, he happened to meet him one day visiting, without recollecting him, and mentioned to the company that he thought that young man had a good deal of wit. When they told him it was his own son, he answered, Ha! truly, I am glad of it.' His descendants were before the revolution, exempted in France from all taxes and impositions. According to D'Alembert, Fontaine, if not the greatest, is the most singularly original of all the writers of the age of Louis XIV. the most an object of despair to imitators, and the writer whom it would cost nature most pains to reproduce.' FONTAINE L'EVForr, in the department of the Nortii, and ci-devant province of Hainanit, between the Sambre and Meuse, three malts west of Charleroi, and ten east of Mons. It was ceded to France in 1667. Near it the French were defeated by the troops of the allies under the prince of Orange, in June 1794. FONTAINES (Peter Francis), a French critic, born at Rouen in 1685. At fifteen he entered into the society of the Jesuits, and at thirty quitted it, though he was a priest, and had a cure in Normandy. Having excited some attention at Paris by his critical productions, the abbé Bignon in 1724 committed to him the Journal des Sçavans. In 1731 he began a work entitled Nouvelliste du Parnasse, ou Reflexions sur les Ouvrages Nouveaux; but only proceeded to two volumes; the work having been suppressed by authority, from the incessant complants of authors ridiculed therein. In 1735 he obtained a new privilege for a periodic il production entitled, Observations sur les Ecrits Modernes; wlach, after continuing to thirty-three volumes, was suppressed in 1733. Yet in 1744 he published another weekly paper, called Jugemens sur les Ouvrages Nouveaux which proceeded to eleven volumes; the last two being completed by other hands, In 1745 he was attacked with a disorder in the breast which ended in a dropsy that proved fatal m five weeks. The abbé de la Porte, published, in 1757, L'Esprit de l'Abbé des Fontaines, in 4 vols. 12mo. with his Life, a catalogue of his works, and of writings against him. FONTANEL, 2.s. Fr. fintanille. An issue; a discharge opened in the body. A person pletorick, subject to hot defluxions, was dvised to a fontanel in her arm. Wis man. FONTAʼNGE, n. s. From the name of the first wearer. A knot of ribands on the top of the head-dress. Out of use. Those old-fashioned fontanges rose an ell above the head: they were pointed like steeples, and had long loose pieces of crape, which were fringed, and hung down their backs. Addison. FONTENAY (John Baptist Blain De), a painter of fruits and flowers, born at Caen in 1654. Louis XIV. gave him a pension, and an apartment in the Louvre. His fruits and flowers have all the freshness of nature; the very dew seems to trickle down their stalks, with all the lustre and transparency of the diamond, while the insects upon them seem perfectly alive. He died at Paris in 1715. FONTENAY, ci-devant Le-Comte, the capital of the department of the Vendée, seated in a fertile vale on the Vendée, and containing about 6600 inhabitants. It has a good trade in cattle, mules, woollen cloths, &c., with three amual fairs. It lies near the sea, twenty-eight miles north-east of Rochelle |