a. Also 7 tumerous, -ourous. [ad. L. tumōrōsus, f. tumor TUMOR; cf. OF. tumoreux (c. 1400 in Godef.).]
† 1. Characterized by tumor or swelling; swollen, protuberant, bulging, tumid. Obs. exc. as in b.
1547. Boorde, Brev. Health, cccxliv. 111 b. A venemous humour which is tumorous.
1601. B. Jonson, Poetaster, V. iii. That should purge His braine, and stomack of those tumorous heates.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., I. v. § 3. 30. Besides this Outside Bulky Extension, and Tumourous Magnitude, there must be another kind of Entity [cf. quot. 1678 s.v. TUMOR 2].
b. Pertaining to or of the nature of a (morbid) tumor; affected with tumors.
1863. Sala, Capt. Dangerous, II. ii. 78. It began to swell … to a most alarming size and tumorous discoloration.
1884. J. Tait, Mind in Matter (1892), 80. Other influences … may produce tumourous growths.
1890. H. M. Stanley, in Times, 6 May. There are trees prematurely aged and blanched, others were tumorous.
† 2. fig. a. Swelling with pride or passion; vainglorious, puffed up, haughty. Obs.
1603. Drayton, Bar. Wars, III. lxxxi. To ease the anguish of her tumorous Spleene.
a. 1639. Wotton, Panegyrick Chas. I., in Reliq. (1652), 147. He had no austerity of behaviour, nothing outwardly tumerous.
1676. Sparrow, Caution agst. False Doctr., 8. The same tumorous vain-glory.
† b. Of language, style, or demeanor: Inflated, bombastic, turgid: = TUMID 2. Obs.
1636. B. Jonson, Discov., Wks. (Rtldg.), 759/1. These styles vary…: for that which is high and lofty, declaring excellent matter, becomes vast and tumorous, speaking of petty and inferior things.
a. 1639. Wotton, Charac. Will. I. Sublime and almost Tumorous in His Looks and Gestures.
a. 1652. A. Wilson, Jas. I. (1653), 285. Some tumorous Discourses.
