Word Meanings - TUMEFY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To swell; to cause to swell, or puff up. To swell, tumefy, stiffen, not the diction only, but the tenor of the thought. De Quincey.

Related words: (words related to TUMEFY)

• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• STIFFENER
  One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat.
• CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
  Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
• THOUGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Think.
• STIFFENING
  1. Act or process of making stiff. 2. Something used to make anything stiff. Stiffening order , a permission granted by the customs department to take cargo or ballast on board before the old cargo is out, in order to steady the ship.
• THOUGHTLESS
  1. Lacking thought; careless; inconsiderate; rash; as, a thoughtless person, or act. 2. Giddy; gay; dissipated. Johnson. 3. Deficient in reasoning power; stupid; dull. Thoughtless as monarch oaks that shade the plain. Dryden. -- Thought"less*ly,
• TENORRHAPHY
  Suture of a tendon.
• DICTION
  Choice of words for the expression of ideas; the construction, disposition, and application of words in discourse, with regard to clearness, accuracy, variety, etc.; mode of expression; language; as, the diction of Chaucer's poems. His
• SWELLTOAD
  A swellfish.
• THOUGHTFUL
  1. Full of thought; employed in meditation; contemplative; as, a man of thoughtful mind. War, horrid war, your thoughtful walks invades. Pope. 2. Attentive; careful; exercising the judgment; having the mind directed to an object; as, thoughtful
• SWELL
  1. To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance; as, the legs swell in dropsy; a bruised part swells; a bladder swells by inflation. 2. To increase in
• SWELLDOM
  People of rank and fashion; the class of swells, collectively.
• CAUSERIE
  Informal talk or discussion, as about literary matters; light conversation; chat.
• CAUSER
  One who or that which causes.
• CAUSELESS
  1. Self-originating; uncreated. 2. Without just or sufficient reason; groundless. My fears are causeless and ungrounded. Denham.
• TENOR
  An exact copy of a writing, set forth in the words and figures of it. It differs from purport, which is only the substance or general import of the instrument. Bouvier. because the tenor was the voice which took and held the principal part, the
• THOUGHT TRANSFERENCE
  Telepathy.
• TUMEFY
  To swell; to cause to swell, or puff up. To swell, tumefy, stiffen, not the diction only, but the tenor of the thought. De Quincey.
• SWELLING
  an unnatural prominence or protuberance; as, a scrofulous swelling. The superficies of such plates are not even, but have many cavities and swellings. Sir I. Newton. (more info) 1. The act of that which swells; as, the swelling of rivers in spring;
• STIFFEN
  Etym: 1. tiono make stiff; to make less pliant or flexible; as, to stiffen cloth with starch. Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood. Shak. 2. To inspissate; to make more thick or viscous; as, to stiffen paste. 3. To make torpid; to benumb.
• UPSWELL
  To swell or rise up.
• BETHOUGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Bethink.
• FORETHOUGHT
  Thought of, or planned, beforehand; aforethought; prepense; hence, deliberate. "Forethought malice." Bacon.
• CONTRADICTION
  1. An assertion of the contrary to what has been said or affirmed; denial of the truth of a statement or assertion; contrary declaration; gainsaying. His fair demands Shall be accomplished without contradiction. Shak. 2. Direct opposition
• NEW THOUGHT
  Any form of belief in mental healing other than Christian Science and hypnotism or psychotherapy. Its central principle is affirmative thought, or suggestion, employed with the conviction that man produces changes in his health, his finances,
• UNSWELL
  To sink from a swollen state; to subside. Chaucer.
• HEARTSWELLING
  Rankling in, or swelling, the heart. "Heartswelling hate." Spenser.
• PREDICTIONAL
  Prophetic; prognostic.
• UNCAUSED
  Having no antecedent cause; uncreated; self-existent; eternal. A. Baxter.
• BENEDICTIONAL
  A book of benedictions.
• EXTRADICTIONARY
  Consisting not in words, but in realities. Of these extradictionary and real fallacies, Aristotle and logicians make in number six. Sir T. Browne.