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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tumefy \Tu"me*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tumefied}; p. pr & vb
n. {Tumefying}.] [F. tum['e]fier, fr L. tumere to swell +
-ficare (in comp.) to make cf L. tumefacere to tumefy. See
{Tumid}, and {-fy}.]
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.
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