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plethory, n. (a.) Now rare.|ˈplɛθərɪ|
Also 7 pletory.
[irreg. from plethora; or perh. deduced from plethoric, on analogy of historic, history, allegoric, allegory, etc.]
1. = plethora 1.
1625Bp. Hall Serm. Thanksgiving 29 Jan. 47 Hee saw that in this common Plethorie it was fit for vs to bleed. 1651Jer. Taylor Serm. f. Year i. v. 59 The appetite..ready to burst with putrifaction and an unwholsome plethory. 1708Brit. Apollo No. 102, 2/1 A Plethory or fulness of Blood. 1835Henslow Princ. Bot. ii. iii. 206 Less sap is exhaled..and the tree attains a state of plethory.
2. fig. = plethora 2.
1624Bp. Hall Heaven upon Earth xiii, Perhaps thou labourest of some plethorie of pride. a1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man ii. x. 228 A Plethory or excess of Numbers of Men, sometimes..cause Wars. 1778Johnson 9 Apr. in Boswell, It is..owing to a plethory of matter that his style is so faulty. 1843Blackw. Mag. LIII. 522 The king [Louis XVI] whose plethory was cured by that sharp remedy.
†B. adj. = plethoric a. Obs. rare.
a1643J. Shute Judgem. & Mercy (1645) 29 To have a pletory fulnesse of Crude, and raw humours in his Stomach.
Hence † ˈplethoriness. rare—1.
1665J. Fraser Polichronicon (S.H.S.) 345 His plethoriness came to such a hight that from spitting it flowed to vomiting of blood. |