plethoric

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/ˈplɛθəɹɪk/(UK)
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/ˈplɛθəɹɪk/(UK) · /plɛˈθɒɹɪk/(UK)

Definition of plethoric

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Suffering from plethora; ruddy in complexion, congested or swollen with blood.
    “a horse-leech, whose deep maw The plethoric King Swellfoot could not fill, And who, till full, will cling for ever.”
    “If the predisposition to the disease has arisen from a plethoric state of the system, or from a turgescence in the vessels of the head, this is to be obviated by bleeding, both generally and topically, but more particularly the latter; an abstemious diet and proper exercise; and by a seton in the neck.”
    “Harold Atkinson, her host, was a fine handsome grey-haired man, plethoric and somewhat corpulent, with an eye for a pretty woman […].”
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adj

  1. Suffering from plethora; ruddy in complexion, congested or swollen with blood.
    “a horse-leech, whose deep maw The plethoric King Swellfoot could not fill, And who, till full, will cling for ever.”
    “If the predisposition to the disease has arisen from a plethoric state of the system, or from a turgescence in the vessels of the head, this is to be obviated by bleeding, both generally and topically, but more particularly the latter; an abstemious diet and proper exercise; and by a seton in the neck.”
    “Harold Atkinson, her host, was a fine handsome grey-haired man, plethoric and somewhat corpulent, with an eye for a pretty woman […].”
  2. Excessive, overabundant, rife; loosely, abundant, varied.
    “the judges [...] were arranging their robes and coughing into their fists, the ebb and flow of their plethoric wigs like a flock of sheep on the run.”
  3. Full or excessively full.
    “Behold the Mansion reared by Dædal Jack! See the Malt stored in many a plethoric sack, In the proud cirque of Juan's bivouac!”

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Etymology

From Late Latin plethoricus, from Hellenistic Ancient Greek πληθωρικός (plēthōrikós), from πληθώρα (plēthṓra, “plethora”). By surface analysis, plethora + -ic.

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