Meaning of plethoric | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Suffering from plethora; ruddy in complexion, congested or swollen with blood.
2. Excessive, overabundant, rife; loosely, abundant, varied.
3. Full or excessively full.

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Examples

“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 […].”

“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.”

“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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