Meaning of forswollen | Babel Free

Definitions

Excessively swollen; (figuratively) puffed up with pride; boastful; enraged.

obsolete

Examples

“mid-1400s, John Conlee (ed.), Prose Merlin, Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1998, “The Tournament at Logres; King Lot and his Sons; and Morgan and Gyomar,” p. 285, line 315, “Ha, boyes!”" quod the kynge, “thow art fell and forswollen. […] ””

“Who tother day wyth arrowes kéene, haue nayled to the ground, The serpent Python so forswolne, whose filthie wombe did hide⟳ So many acres of the grounde in which he did abide.”

“Whilst hee that earst against the Sunne did beake His foreswolne poysonous bulke, doth vanquishd lie⟳ In his owne filth:”

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