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plethoric, a.|plɪˈθɒrɪk, ˈplɛθərɪk|
[ad. med.L. plēt(h)ōricus (Du Cange), a. Gr. πληθωρικός (Galen), f. πληθώρη plethora. Prob. immed. from F. pléthorique (Paré c 1550), whence the stressing ˈplethoric: cf. ˈcatholic.]
1. Path. Characterized by plethora, of a full habit of body.
1620Venner Via Recta viii. 172 Such as haue plethoricke and full bodies. 1764Goldsm. Trav. 144 The nation found, with fruitless skill, Its former strength was but plethoric ill. 1803Med. Jrnl. X. 51 A young man,..of a plethoric habit. 1846J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) II. 131 Cattle are very subject to sudden determination of blood to the head. They are naturally plethoric.
†b. absol. as n. A plethoric person. Obs.
1707Floyer Physic. Pulse-Watch 191 If the Pulse be too full, as in Plethorics, we must use some general Evacuations.
2. fig. Full to excess, overstocked, overloaded; swollen, inflated, turgid.
1644Bulwer Chiron. 114 This happens to some by reason of a certain Plethorique wit. 1800Hist. India in Asiat. Ann. Reg. 3/2 That plethoric opulence with which the merchants of Alexandria sunk into idleness. 1848Lowell Biglow P. Ser. i. Introd., The pockets, plethoric with marbles round, That still a space for ball and pegtop found. 1864Burton Scot Abr. II. i. 126 Plethoric volumes which slumber in decorous old libraries. |