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turgid, a.|ˈtɜːdʒɪd|
[ad. L. turgid-us swollen, inflated, f. turgēre to swell: see -id1.]
1. Swollen, distended, puffed out.
1620Venner Via Recta iv. 82 You shall commonly see them..to haue turgid, and strouting-out bellies. 1660Boyle New Exp. Phys. Mech. v. 52 A Bladder, but moderately fill'd with Air and strongly ty'd, being..held near the Fire,..grew exceedingly turgid and hard. 1669J. Rose Eng. Vineyard (1675) 33 Proud and turgid buds. 1674Grew Anat. Trunks ii. i. §15 The Bladders..being swelled up and turgid with Sap. 1776Withering Brit. Plants (1796) III. 618 Anthyllis. Cup swoln and turgid; inclosing the legumen. 1797M. Baillie Morb. Anat. (1807) 456 The veins of the pia mater have been found turgid with blood. 1846Ellis Elgin Marb. I. 102 Turgid muscles of the breast. 1860Maury Phys. Geog. Sea (Low) xi. §523 This condensation is followed by a turgid intumescence.
fig.1692Bentley Boyle Lect. ix. 329 Their Imaginations turgid and pregnant with the glorious Ideas. 1697Evelyn Numism. iii. 82 That turgid Vanity and gross Adulation.
2. fig. in reference to language: Inflated, grandiloquent, pompous, bombastic.
1725Watts Logic ii. iii. iii. §6 Some..have a violent and turgid manner both of talking and thinking. 1762Foote Orators ii. Wks. 1799 I. 219 The frothy, the turgid, the calm, and the clamorous [declaimers]. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. xvii. II. 40 The advocates, who filled the Forum with the sound of their turgid and loquacious rhetoric. 1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) I. 97 His verbose and turgid style, too, is destitute of all genuine feeling. |