To swell: to rise: to bee puffed vp: to ware proude and stately. Aquæ tumescenres æquoris. Ouid. Waters swelling. Inflata colla tumescunt. Ouid. Maria alta tumescunt. Virg. Swel. Pondera ventris tume scebant. Ouid. Hir bellie wared bigger and bigger, or beganne to rise more and more. Altè tumescunt seruiles animi. Claud. Bella operta tumescunt. Virg. Increase.

I. Lit.: inflatum mare cum subito penitusque tumescit, Cic. poët. Div. 1, 7, 13: vi maria, Verg. G. 2, 479: freta ventis, Ov. M. 1, 36: inflata colla, id. ib. 6, 377: vulnera, Tac. H. 2, 77: fluvius tabe nivis, Luc. 10, 244: suco herba, Sen. Herc. Fur. 936: matura virginitas, Claud. Epith. 125.—

II. Trop., to swell up, become swollen with passionate excitement, to become excited, violent, ready to burst forth: rumpor et ora mihi pariter cum mente tumescunt (with anger), Ov. H. 8, 57: rabie, Claud. IV. Cons. Hon. 242.—

B. To be puffed up with pride or insolence: mens aut languescit aut contra tumescit inani persuasione, Quint. 1, 2, 18; so with pride: serviles animi alte, Claud. in Eutr. 1, 176: Ly dia Pactoli fonte, id. II. Cons. Stil. 61: (monet) operta tumescere bella, are fermenting, threatening to break out, Verg. G. 1, 465; cf.: tumescens bellum, Vell. 2, 15, 2.