Meaning of tumefy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To cause to swell.
   transitive
2. To swell; to rise into a tumour.
   intransitive

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Examples

“to swell, tumefy, stiffen, not the diction only, but the tenor of the thought”

“[…] Lanfrank takes Notice⟳ of Tract. 3. Doct. 3. cap. 18. ſaying, "I have⟳ ſeen many who being full of Humours, have⟳ made an Iſſue under the Knee, before due Purgation had been premis'd; whence, by reaſon of the too great Defluxion of Humours, the Legs tumified, ſo that the cauterized Place⟳ corrupted, and a Cancer (or rather cacoethic Ulcer) was thereby made, with which great Difficulty was cur'd."”

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