intumesco

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

in-tŭmesco: mŭi, 3,
I v. n. inch., to swell up; to rise (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).
I Lit.: fluctus flatu intumescens, Plin. 2, 81, 83, § 196; id. 37, 5, 18, § 69: vidi virgineas intumuisse genas, Ov. F. 6, 700.— Of dropsical persons: intumuit suffusā venter ab undā, Ov. F. 1, 215: si partes corporis in vesicas intumuerint, Plin. 20, 6, 23, § 51.—
   B Transf., to rise, be elevated, of the surface of the ground: loco tamen ipso paululum intumescente, Col. 1, 4, 10; cf.: nec intumescit alta viperis humus, Hor. Epod. 16, 52.—
II Trop.
   A To swell up: vox intumescit, Tac. G. 3: motus, grows, increases, id. A. 1, 38: intumuere statim superbia ferociaque, Tac. H. 4, 19: jure quodam potestatis intumescere, to be puffed up, elated, Quint. 1, 1, 8: rebus secundis, Plin. Ep. 7, 31, 3: supra humanum modum, Sen. Cons. ad Polyb. 36.—
   B To become angry: intumuit vati, Ov. P. 4, 14, 34: Juno, quod, etc., id. F. 6, 487; id. M. 8, 582 al.