单词 | turgency |
释义 | turgencyn. Now rare or Obsolete. 1. The condition or quality of swelling or being turgent; a swollen or turgid state. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > swelling > [noun] swalm?c1225 bolninga1340 swelling1377 blowinga1398 tumefaction1598 swelth1631 turgency1650 tumidity1828 lumping1851 nodulation1862 nodularity1948 1650 H. Brooke Υγιεινη 49 A Turgency of Humors. 1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician xix. 776 The Patients feel a certain sense of turgency in that part. 1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. iv. ii. 108 Nature repaired the watery Humour again, the Eyes returned to their former Turgency. 1794 G. Adams Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. IV. xlix. 406 This excessive mobility of parts..of the most rigid bodies..implies a great turgency of their substance with some very active fluid. 2. figurative. a. An inflated or bombastic style of language. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [noun] > inflated or bombastic style inflation1603 windinessa1613 ranting1633 tumoura1639 turgency1654 tympany1680 swell1744 turgidity1756 turgidness1757 tumidity1791 ráiméis1828 mouthiness1830 spread-eagleism1858 inflatedness1867 ampullosity1869 telegraphese1870 mouthing1876 Barnumese1889 intumescence1893 1654 H. Hammond Answer Animadversions on Diss. touching Ignatius's Epist. iii. §2. 54 This double objection against turgencie of style and barbarousnesse of words. 1660 H. More Explan. Grand Myst. Godliness i. v. 14 Their Tongues are swelled with greater tumor and turgency of speech. b. An insurrectionary condition or movement. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > insurrection > [noun] > an insurrection uparisingc1325 rebelliona1382 risingc1390 risec1400 surrectionc1418 rebela1425 upsetc1425 insurrection1459 mutinewe?c1550 revolt1553 tumult1560 emotion1562 sedition1585 uprising1587 innovation1601 esmeute1652 turgency1660 émeute1782 outbreak1826 uprisal1871 upsurge1930 1660 T. M. Walker's Hist. Independency 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online December 2019). < |
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