Word Meanings - IMPOSTHUME - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A collection of pus or purulent matter in any part of an animal body; an abscess.

SUPERFLUITY
1. A greater quantity than is wanted; superabundance; as, a superfluity of water; a superfluity of wealth. A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity. Suckling. 2. The state or quality of being superfluous; excess.
TUMOR
A morbid swelling, prominence, or growth, on any part of the body; especially, a growth produced by deposition of new tissue; a neoplasm. 2. Affected pomp; bombast; swelling words or expressions; false magnificence or sublimity. Better, however,
IMPOSTHUME
A collection of pus or purulent matter in any part of an animal body; an abscess.
TUMOROUS
1. Swelling; protuberant. Sir H. Wotton. 2. Inflated; bombastic. B. Jonson.
TUMORED
Distended; swelled. "His tumored breast." R. Junius.
EXCRESCENCE
An excrescent appendage, as, a wart or tumor; anything growing out unnaturally from anything else; a preternatural or morbid development; hence, a troublesome superfluity; an incumbrance; as, an excrescence on the body, or on a plant. "Excrescences
SUPEREXCRESCENCE
Something growing superfluously.
REDUNDANCE; REDUNDANCY
Surplusage inserted in a pleading which may be rejected by the court without impairing the validity of what remains. (more info) 1. The quality or state of being redundant; superfluity; superabundance; excess. 2. That which is redundant