forswollen

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English forswollen, for-swollen, forswellen, equivalent to for- +‎ swollen. === Adjective === forswollen (comparative more forswollen, superlative most forswollen) (obsolete) Excessively swollen; (figuratively) 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. […] ” 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 or Saint George) I treade: Whilst hee that earst against the Sunne did beake His foreswolne poysonous bulke, doth vanquishd lie In his owne filth: