adv. [f. TURGID + -LY2.] In a turgid, inflated, or swollen manner; in turgid style or language.

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1668.  H. More, Div. Dial., II. xviii. 282. A kind of Lunacy that reigns thus turgidly in Cuphophron’s copious Harangue.

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1846.  Dana, Zooph. (1848), 344. Interstices … usually throughout turgidly elevated.

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1910.  Spectator, 29 Oct., 696/2. He … puts turgidly and obscurely what could far better have been expressed in homely idioms.

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