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tumorous, a.|ˈtjuːmərəs|
Also 7 tumerous, -ourous.
[ad. L. tumōrōsus, f. tumor tumour: cf. OF. tumoreux (c 1400 in Godef.).]
†1. Characterized by tumour or swelling; swollen, protuberant, bulging, tumid. Obs. exc. as in b.
1547Boorde Brev. Health cccxliv. 111 b, A venemous humour which is tumorous. 1601B. Jonson Poetaster v. iii, That should purge His braine, and stomack of those tumorous heates. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. v. §3. 30 Besides this Outside Bulky Extension, and Tumourous Magnitude, there must be another kind of Entity [cf. quot. 1678 s.v. tumour 2].
b. Pertaining to or of the nature of a (morbid) tumour: affected with tumours.
1863Sala Capt. Dangerous II. ii. 78 It began to swell..to a most alarming size and tumorous discoloration. 1884J. Tait Mind in Matter (1892) 80 Other influences.. may produce tumourous growths. 1890H. M. Stanley in Times 6 May, There are trees prematurely aged and blanched, others were tumorous.
†2. fig.
a. Swelling with pride or passion; vainglorious, puffed up, haughty. Obs.
1603Drayton Bar. Wars iii. lxxxi, To ease the anguish of her tumorous Spleene. a1639Wotton Panegyrick Chas. I in Reliq. (1652) 147 He had no austerity of behaviour, nothing outwardly tumerous. 1676Sparrow Caution agst. False Doctr. 8 The same tumorous vain-glory.
†b. Of language, style, or demeanour: Inflated, bombastic, turgid: = tumid 2. Obs.
1636B. Jonson Discov. Wks. (Rtldg.) 759/1 These styles vary..: for that which is high and lofty, declaring excellent matter, becomes vast and tumorous, speaking of petty and inferior things. a1639Wotton Charac. Will. I, Sublime and almost Tumorous in His Looks and Gestures. a1652A. Wilson Jas. I (1653) 285 Some tumorous Discourses. |