TURGENT

a.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Rising into a tumor, or a puffy state; swelling; tumid; as, turgent humors.

2.
a.

Inflated; bombastic; turgid; pompous. Recompensed with turgent titles. Burton.


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