Crossword clues for repletion
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Repletion \Re*ple"tion\ (r?-pl?"sh?n), n. [L. repletio a filling up: cf. F. r['e]pl['e]tion. See Replete.]
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The state of being replete; superabundant fullness.
The tree had too much repletion, and was oppressed with its own sap.
--Bacon.Repleccioun [overeating] ne made her never sick.
--Chaucer. (Med.) Fullness of blood; plethora.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French repletion, replection (early 14c.) or directly from Late Latin repletionem (nominative repletio), noun of action from past participle stem of replere "to fill" (see replete).
Wiktionary
n. The condition of being replete.
WordNet
Usage examples of "repletion".
The waves of delight that ran through her, the melting joy that seemed to pull her into a whirlpool of repletion, it was all totally unknown and yet it felt as right and wonderful as the most familiar ritual.
Meanwhile, Wyrd, to the vexation of the smithwife, kept demanding additional food from her, and kept making the rest of us gorge on it, to repletion and beyond.
I daresay Maggot also had dined to repletion, but he companionably and voraciously continued to eat for as long as I did, perhaps because this may have been the first time he had ever been allowed to eat at a table indoors.
With a soft sigh of repletion, she nestled against him, never wanting to move again.
Hence this repletion of the vital organs causes pain from pressure and fullness of the distended blood-vessels, and the organic functions are embarrassed.
Were not the jails of Old England full to repletion the day after Christmas?
The Irishwoman, poor stupid Kitty Fagan, who had no theory of human nature, saw her over the lean shoulders of the spinster, and, forgetting all differences of condition and questions of authority, rushed to her with a cry of maternal tenderness, and, with a tempest of passionate tears and kisses, bore her off to her own humble realm, where the little victorious martyr was fed from the best stores of the house, until there was as much danger from repletion as there had been from famine.
It was every bit as ood as it had sounded, and the iced curacao lousse with strawberries, which followed the callops and salmon served with watercress auce, mushrooms and truffles, left her in a Peasant state of repletion which, however, didn't revent her getting up to dance at his suggestion with every sign of pleasure.
Not a thought had she for the Galls in Salterton, who would at this time be sitting amid the ruins of Mrs Gall's calorifically murderous Christmas dinner, fighting, in the name of Christian charity, a losing fight against their mounting ennui and repletion.
Mercedes Brigham sighed, sitting back from the breakfast table with a comfortable sense of repletion.
It emoted only feelings of well-being, repletion and self satisfaction.
This I have since often known to have been taken with success, and do freely recommend it to my countrymen, for the public good, as an admirable specific against all diseases produced by repletion.