Word Meanings - TURGENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Rising into a tumor, or a puffy state; swelling; tumid; as, turgent humors. 2. Inflated; bombastic; turgid; pompous. Recompensed with turgent titles. Burton.
Related words: (words related to TURGENT)
- RIS
A bough or branch; a twig. As white as is the blossom upon the ris. Chaucer. - STATESMANLIKE
Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman. - STATEHOOD
The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood. - INFLATE
Blown in; inflated. Chaucer. - TUMOR
A morbid swelling, prominence, or growth, on any part of the body; especially, a growth produced by deposition of new tissue; a neoplasm. 2. Affected pomp; bombast; swelling words or expressions; false magnificence or sublimity. Better, however, - RISIBLE
1. Having the faculty or power of laughing; disposed to laugh. Laughing is our busines, . . . it has been made the definition of man that he is risible. Dr. H. More. 2. Exciting laughter; worthy to be laughed at; amusing. "Risible absurdities." - INFLATED
Hollow and distended, as a perianth, corolla, nectary, or pericarp. Martyn. 4. Distended or enlarged fictitiously; as, inflated prices, etc. (more info) 1. Filled, as with air or gas; blown up; distended; as, a balloon inflated with gas. 2. Turgid; - RISQUE; RISQUEE
Hazardous; risky; esp., fig., verging upon impropriety; dangerously close to, or suggestive of, what is indecent or of doubtful morality; as, a risqué story. Henry Austin. - TUMIDITY
The quality or state of being tumid. - RIST
3d pers. sing. pres. of Rise, contracted from riseth. Chaucer. - INFLATER
One who, or that which, inflates; as, the inflaters of the stock exchange. - RISEN
1. p. p. & a. from Rise. "Her risen Son and Lord." Keble. 2. Obs. imp. pl. of Rise. Chaucer. - STATE SOCIALISM
A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to - RECOMPENSE
recompensare, fr.L. pref. re- re- + compensare to compensate. See 1. To render an equivalent to, for service, loss, etc.; to requite; to remunerate; to compensate. He can not recompense me better. Shak. 2. To return an equivalent for; - RECOMPENSER
One who recompenses. A thankful recompenser of the benefits received. Foxe. - SWELLTOAD
A swellfish. - STATECRAFT
The art of conducting state affairs; state management; statesmanship. - POMPOUS
1. Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur; magnificent; as, a pompous procession. 2. Ostentatious; pretentious; boastful; vainlorious; as, pompous manners; a pompous style. "Pompous in high presumption." Chaucer. he pompous vanity of the - RECOMPENSEMENT
Recompense; requital. Fabyan. - STATESWOMAN
A woman concerned in public affairs. A rare stateswoman; I admire her bearing. B. Jonson. - HORRISONOUS
Sounding dreadfully; uttering a terrible sound. Bailey. - ENTERPRISER
One who undertakes enterprises. Sir J. Hayward. - CREBRICOSTATE
Marked with closely set ribs or ridges. - TRISYLLABIC; TRISYLLABICAL
Of or pertaining to a trisyllable; consisting of three syllables; as, "syllable" is a trisyllabic word. -- Tris`yllab"ic*al*ly, adv. - GRISLY
Frightful; horrible; dreadful; harsh; as, grisly locks; a grisly specter. "Grisly to behold." Chaucer. A man of grisly and stern gravity. Robynson . Grisly bear. See under Grizzly. (more info) gro shudder; cf. OD. grijselick horrible, - CHARACTERISTIC
Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay. - GRISTMILL
A mill for grinding grain; especially, a mill for grinding grists, or portions of grain brought by different customers; a custom mill. - SPAGYRIST
1. A chemist, esp. one devoted to alchemistic pursuits. 2. One of a sect which arose in the days of alchemy, who sought to discover remedies for disease by chemical means. The spagyrists historically preceded the iatrochemists. Encyc. Brit. - LUTHERANISM; LUTHERISM
The doctrines taught by Luther or held by the Lutheran Church. - METAPHORIST
One who makes metaphors. - SAGEBRUSH STATE
Nevada; -- a nickname. - ARTILLERIST
A person skilled in artillery or gunnery; a gunner; an artilleryman. - TANTRISM
The system of doctrines and rites taught in the tantras. -- Tan"trist , n. - OLD LINE STATE
Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line. - ENSTATE
See INSTATE - PERISTALSIS
Peristaltic contraction or action. - IMPARISYLLABIC
Not consisting of an equal number of syllables; as, an imparisyllabic noun, one which has not the same number of syllables in all the cases; as, lapis, lapidis; mens, mentis.