“tumidity”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

tumidity

释义

tumidity|tjuːˈmɪdɪtɪ|
[ad. late L. tumiditās, f. tumidus tumid.]
The quality or condition of being tumid; swollenness. a. lit.; also concr. a swelling.
1721Bailey, Tumidity, swelling.1828Macaulay Dryden Wks. 1898 VII. 152 No more than the tumidity of a muscle resembles the tumidity of a boil.1873A. W. Ward tr. Curtius' Hist. Greece I. i. i. 24 Every muscle, every sinew, is developed into full play,..there is no trace of tumidity or of inert matter.1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 476 Windy tumidities and occasionally phantom tumours arise.
b. fig. in reference to language: see tumid 2.
1791Boswell Johnson an. 1784 (1816) IV. 433 [A passage] blown up into such tumidity, as to be truly ludicrous.1883R. Brown in Fortn. Rev. 1 Sept. 380 Their periods turned with Johnsonian tumidity.1895Q. Rev. Oct. 336 Aeschylus, grandiose at times almost to tumidity.

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