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Webster 1913 Edition
Plethoric
Ple-thor′ic
,Adj.
[Gr. [GREEK]; cf. F.
pléthorique
.] Haeving a full habit of body; characterized by plethora or excess of blood;
“Plethoric phrases.” as, a
; – used also metaphorically. plethoric
constitutionSydney Smith.
“Plethoric fullness of thought.” De Quincey.
Webster 1828 Edition
Plethoric
PLETH'ORIC
,Adj.
Definition 2024
plethoric
plethoric
English
Adjective
plethoric (comparative more plethoric, superlative most plethoric)
- (medicine) Suffering from plethora; ruddy in complexion, congested or swollen with blood. [from 14th c.]
- 1941, W Somerset Maugham, Up at the Villa, Vintage 2004, p. 81:
- Harold Atkinson, her host, was a fine handsome grey-haired man, plethoric and somewhat corpulent, with an eye for a pretty woman […].
- 1941, W Somerset Maugham, Up at the Villa, Vintage 2004, p. 81:
- Excessive, overabundant, rife; loosely, abundant, varied. [from 17th c.]
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 161:
- 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.
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 161:
Related terms
Translations
containing excessive blood
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