warmeth

Verb

warm (third-person singular simple present warms, present participle warming, simple past and past participle warmed)

1. (transitive) To make or keep warm.
   • Then shall it [an ash tree] be for a man to burn; for he will take thereof and warm himself.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 44 44-Chapter-15/# 15
2. (intransitive) To become warm, to heat up.
   • My socks are warming by the fire.
3. (intransitive) (sometimes in the form warm up) To favour increasingly.
   • Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
4. (ditransitive) To cause (someone) to favour (something) increasingly.
   • It is with no small degree of irony that I confess that immersing myself in an interdisciplinary project has warmed me to the seductions of disciplinary perspectives.2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page xi
5. (intransitive) To become ardent or animated.
   • The speaker warms as he proceeds.
6. (transitive) To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal in; to enliven.
   • there was a collection of all that had been written […] : I warmed my head with them.1717 November 20, Alexander Pope, letter to the Bishop of Rochester

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