Definitions
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Etymologies
- Latin turgens, turgentis, present participle of turgere to swell. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“In the latest turgent episode of "As the Crumbling Newspaper Industry Turns," news broke that Jay Mariotti, the $300,000-a-year (give or take a few thousand) controversial sports columnist at my old newspaper, The Chicago Sun-Times, abruptly quit.”
“Chrysostom, good men do not always find grace and favour, lest they should be puffed up with turgent titles, grow insolent and proud.”
“The style of these epistles doth not a little weaken the credit of them, being turgent, swelling with uncouth words and phrases, affected manner and ways of expression, new compositions of words, multiplying titles of honour to men, — exceedingly remote and distant from the plainness and simplicity of the first writers among the Christians, as is evident by comparing these with the epistle of Clemens before mentioned, that of Polycarpus in”
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
“Lemnius haec etiam gemmis exstruxit et auro admiscens artem pretio trabibusque smaragdi90 supposuit caesas hyacinthi rupe columnas. beryllo paries et iaspide lubrica surgunt limina despectusque solo calcatur achates. in medio glaebis redolentibus area diues praebet odoratas messis; hic mitis amomi, 95 hic casiae matura seges, Panchaeaque turgent cinnama, nec sicco frondescunt uimina costo tardaque sudanti prorepunt balsama riuo.”
“Potestas quam sibi Papa et Episcopi, caeterique quos spiritales vacant, arrogant, et fastus, quo turgent, ex sacris literis et doctrina Christi firmamentum non habet.”
“Itaque peccata sua ex Lege non vere agnoscunt: sed aut hypocritae fiunt, qui justitiae propriae opinione turgent, quales: [11291] 1”
“Lege non vere agnoscunt: sed aut hypocritae fiunt, qui justitiae propriae opinione turgent, quales VII.”
“But we had considerably more than a capful of wind, and there was a turgent ground-swell on, which made our boat — double-engined, and as trim and tidy a craft as ever sped across the span from shore to shore — behave rather lively, with sportive indulgence in a brisk game of pitch-and-toss that proved anything but comfortable to most of the passengers.”
“That he did not hope for this temper in his age, the humour on both sides being so turgent, and extremely contrary to it, and the controversy debated on both sides by those 'who,' saith he, '_desire to eternize, and not to compose contentions_,' and therefore makes his appeal to posterity, when this paroxysm shall be over.”
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Let's talk about sex
A collection of words about doing the nasty.
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my words
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liquescent, mythopoeic, polysyndeton, qua, ipso facto, eschatology, turgent, allegory, akasha, bludger, dialectical, surd and 10 more...
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