repletion

See also: réplétion

English

Etymology

From Middle English replecioun, from Old French repletion, from Latin replētiō, replētiōnem.

Noun

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

the condition of being replete

Bulgarian: насита (bg) f (nasita), пресищане (bg) n (presištane)
French: réplétion (fr) f
Irish: lánmhaireacht f
Latin: plēnitās f, saturitas f
Manx: saieys m, saieid m
Russian: изоби́лие (ru) (izobílije), переполненность (ru) f (perepolnennostʹ)
Swedish: överfyllnad

Anagrams

interlope, interpole, let one rip, petroline, retpoline, terpineol

Old French

Alternative forms

replecion
repleciun

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin replētiō, replētiōnem.

Noun

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

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