forswollenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

forswollen (comparative more forswollen, superlative most forswollen)

1. (obsolete) Excessively swollen; (比喩的に) puffed up with pride; boastful; enraged.
   • mid-1400s, John Conlee (ed.), Prose Merlin, Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1998, “The Tournament at Logres; King Lot and his Sons; and Morgan and Gyomar,” p. 285, line 315,^[1]

     “Ha, boyes!”" quod the kynge, “thow art fell and forswollen. […] ”

   • 1567, Arthur Golding (translator), The XV Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, entytuled Metamorphosis, Book 1,^[2]

     Who tother day wyth arrowes kéene, haue nayled to the ground,

     The serpent Python so forswolne, whose filthie wombe did hide

     So many acres of the grounde in which he did abide.

   • 1595, Barnabe Barnes, Sonnet 57 in A Divine Centurie of Spirituall Sonnets, London, John Windet,^[3]

     […] then I wreake

     My wrath on Sathan, and vpon his head

     Mee thinkes (like Michaell または Saint George) I treade:

     Whilst hee that earst against the Sunne did beake

     His foreswolne poysonous bulke, doth vanquishd lie

     In his owne filth: