repletion
See also: réplétion
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English replecioun, from Old French repletion, from Latin replētiō, replētiōnem.
Noun edit
repletion (countable and uncountable, plural repletions)
- The condition of being replete; fullness.
- 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXXVII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 170:
- Fiddle de dee, the whole thing is neither more nor less than a substitute for the masquerade, which luckily became so gross, it died of repletion.
- (medicine, archaic) Plethora of the blood.
Translations edit
the condition of being replete
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Old French edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin replētiō, replētiōnem.
Noun edit
repletion oblique singular, f (oblique plural repletions, nominative singular repletion, nominative plural repletions)
- repletion (fullness)
- (medicine) overabundance; excess
- 1377, Bernard de Gordon, Fleur de lis de medecine (a.k.a. lilium medicine), page 204 of this essay:
- il doit fuir grant replecion de viandes et de beuvrage
- he must avoid excess of meat and beverages