plethoric
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈplɛθəɹɪk/, /plɛˈθɒɹɪk/
plethoric
- (medicine) Suffering from plethora; ruddy in complexion, congested or swollen with blood. [from 14th c.]
- 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:
- a horse-leech, whose deep maw
The plethoric King Swellfoot could not fill,
And who, till full, will cling for ever.
- a horse-leech, whose deep maw
- 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 […].
- 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:
- 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:
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