v. rare. [ad. L. turgēscĕre, inceptive of turgēre: see prec. and -ESCE.] intr. To begin to swell, to become turgid or inflated.
1718. E. Strother, Ess. Fevers, 185. If we add, they [Humours] turgesce, when they are in great Plenty; when they are concocted; and when they are Pestilential; we may, in all these Cases, conclude, that Evacuation is somewhere requir’d.
1846. A. Clissold, trans. Swedenborg’s Econ. Anim. Kingd., I. 149. It is of one kind when the arteries turgesce beyond their due limit with a large abundance of their enclosed fluid.
1877–8. R. A. Macfie, Verities in Verses (ed. 2), 10.
| Should vie to reproduce forefathers’ deeds, | |
| Not turgesce bye the fruit of their good seeds. |
1898. S. A. Moor, trans. Detmer’s Plant Physiology, 190. The cells of the parenchyma of the fruits turgesce very strongly.
