Word Meanings - PLETHORICAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Plethoric. -- Ple*thor"ic*al*ly, adv. Burke.

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• PLETHORICAL
  Plethoric. -- Ple*thor"ic*al*ly, adv. Burke.
• PLETHORIC
  Haeving a full habit of body; characterized by plethora or excess of blood; as, a plethoric constitution; -- used also metaphorically. "Plethoric phrases." Sydney Smith. "Plethoric fullness of thought." De Quincey.
• BURKE
  1. To murder by suffocation, or so as to produce few marks of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for dissection. 2. To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to smother; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary