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plethoretic

plethoretic is the obsolete form of plethoric.

Meaning of plethoric

Adjective

plethoric (comparative more plethoric, superlative most plethoric)

  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.1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts
  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.1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 161
  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!1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 63

Forms of plethoretic

comparativemore plethoretic
superlativemost plethoretic

Questions about plethoretic

What is plethoretic the obsolete form of?
Plethoretic is the obsolete form of plethoric.

Words near plethoretic in the dictionary

  1. Plethonic
  2. plethora
  3. plethorae
  4. plethoral
  5. plethoras
  6. plethoretic
  7. plethoric
  8. plethorical
  9. plethorically
  10. plethories
  11. plethory

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