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turgency Now rare or Obs.|ˈtɜːdʒənsɪ|
[f. turgent: see -ency.]
1. The condition or quality of swelling or being turgent; a swollen or turgid state.
1650H. Brooke Conserv. Health 49 A Turgency of Humors. 1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. xix. 776 The Patients feel a certain sense of turgency in that part. 1713Derham Phys.-Theol. iv. ii. 108 Nature repaired the watery Humour again, the Eyes returned to their former Turgency. 1794G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. (1806) IV. xlix. 349 This excessive mobility of parts..of the most rigid bodies..implies a great turgency of their substance with some very active fluid.
2. fig.
a. An inflated or bombastic style of language.
1654Hammond Answ. Animadv. Ignat. iii. §2. 54 This double objection against turgencie of style and barbarousnesse of words. 1660H. More Myst. Godl. i. v. 14 Their Tongues are swelled with greater tumor and turgency of speech.
b. An insurrectionary condition or movement.
1660T. M. C. Walker's Hist. Independ. iv. Ded., Yet is it necessary that the history of such turgencies in the State should be communicated, that posterity may hereafter see..the certain punishment of Treason. |