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
   • 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...1842, Gibbons Merle, John Reitch, The Domestic Dictionary and Housekeeper’s Manual: Comprising Everything Related to Cookery, Diet, Economy and Medicine. By Gibbons Merle. The Medical Portion of the...
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