a horse-leech, whose deep maw The plethoric King Swellfoot could not fill, And who, till full, will cling for ever.
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Plethoric
/ˈplɛθəɹɪk/
Synonyms for "plethoric" (59 found)
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7 entriesarchaic medical usageengorged capillariesflowery prosegrandiloquent prosehistorical medical lexiconhyperemic skinornate rhetoric
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5 entriesplethoric complexionplethoric conditionplethoric flushplethoric habitusplethoric prose
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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.
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Harold Atkinson, her host, was a fine handsome grey-haired man, plethoric and somewhat corpulent, with an eye for a pretty woman […].
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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.
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