repleten.
/rᵻˈpliːt/, U.S. /rəˈplit/, /riˈplit/ Entomology.
A honeypot ant ( Myrmecocystus and other genera) whose abdomen has become greatly distended with stored honeydew and nectar. Chiefly in plural.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > ant > distended with food
replete1877
rotund1882
1877 H. C. McCook in Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 6 275 Let us for convenience, call the ants in this condition, ‘repletes’.
1908 Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 24 379 In most cases, as McCook has shown, it is the major workers that most readily tend to become repletes.
1929 Encycl. Brit. XX. 885/2 Since ants..have not the art of making receptacles, they [sc. honey ants] have adopted the curious method of using the crops of certain workers or soldiers for the purpose of food storage... Individuals thus functioning are termed repletes... When hungry the ants stroke the repletes and receive from them droplets of regurgitated honey-dew collected during times of plenty.
1992 Jrnl. Austral. Entomol. Soc. 31 247 Aborigines are familiar with this honey ant, but do not normally eat its repletes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
repleteadj.
/rᵻˈpliːt/, U.S. /rəˈplit/, /riˈplit/ 1.
a. Abundantly supplied or provided with something (material or immaterial). Formerly also with †of.
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the mind > possession > supply > [adjective] > provided or supplied with something > well-provided or supplied > with, in, or for something
richc1175
repletec1384
strongc1450
ripe1579
wealthy1608
well off1775
rife1787
plus1808
well to pass1809
long on1929
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Philipp. iv. 18 I am repleet [v.rr. fulfillid, fillid; L. repletus] with tho thingis takun of Epafrodite.
a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Merlin (1904) I. l. 6236 (MED) Of all vertwes sche is repleet.
a1475 Visio Philiberti (Brogyntyn) in J. O. Halliwell Early Eng. Misc. (1855) 16 (MED) Where is now thy hyȝe palleys, reyplete of reches flouyng in gret abundanse?
1543 ( Chron. J. Hardyng (1812) 321 (MED) Then went thei furth vnto sainct Iohns towne, That was replete and full of all vitaile.
a1576 Lady Abergavenny Praiers in T. Bentley et al. Monument of Matrones (1582) ii. 201 Eternall tribulation, and infinite calamitie, repleat with all euills.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. iv. 132 It is repleate with all the blessings, earth can giue to man.
c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1644 (1955) II. 215 Here we were shew'd the Musæum of Fulvius Ursinos, repleate with innumerable collections.
1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub Ep. Ded. 10 A good sizeable Volume..replete with Discoveries equally valuable for their Novelty and Use.
1764 O. Goldsmith Hist. Eng. in Lett. (1772) II. 161 Those denunciations of ruin with which their orations are replete.
1847 L. Hunt Jar of Honey (1848) xi. 149 The very air seems replete with humming and buzzing melodies.
1881 St. G. Mivart Cat 20 Some bones have their entire substance replete with cavities or cancelli, and such are called cancellated or spongy.
1918 Glasgow Evening News 14 Sept. 6 An aeroplane is replete with them [sc. gadgets]—thermometer, barometer, altimeter, and the pilot only knows what besides.
1973 N.Y. Law Jrnl. 5 June 4/4 Statutes are replete with misplaced commas.
2005 D. McWilliams Pope's Children iii. 32 History is replete with examples of countries that opened up to free competition..without having the wealth or at least credit in the hands of the punters.
b. Fully imbued with a quality or property.In later use rarely of people.
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the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > [adjective] > full > specifically in immaterial sense
fraught?14..
replete?1406
replenished1548
high-chargeda1642
?1406 T. Hoccleve La Mâle Règle l. 350 in E. P. Hammond Eng. Verse between Chaucer & Surrey (1927) 65/1 My purs his stuf hath lore, And my Carkeis repleet with heuynesse.
?a1425 tr. Catherine of Siena Orcherd of Syon (Harl.) (1966) 126 (MED) A man fyndeþ hym fulfild and repleet boþe with þe loue and charytee of me and also of his neiȝbore.
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1869) II. 217 The lyfe of noon other thynge is more frayle, replete with moste infirmite.
1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1928) xvi. 61 I folowed her into a temple ferre Replete with Ioye.
1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 916/2 I am but a wretch replet with miserie.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. ix. 409 He was repleate with all abhominable vices.
1671 W. Salmon Synopsis Medicinæ ii. xlv. 303 If the Body is repleat with strength, the Sick, without doubt, will escape and not die.
1777 J. Priestley Doctr. Philos. Necessity 204 I have shewn..that the system of immaterialism is replete with absurdity.
1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. v. vi. 566 The proceedings..appeared to be replete with irregularity and injustice.
1877 Spirit of Times 24 Nov. 454/1 Anna Boyle's balcony scene was a most lovely performance, replete with naïve passion and spirit.
1923 N. Foerster Nature in Amer. Lit. v. 146 His predilection was for a humanized landscape replete with light and vivacity.
1955 A. M. Lindbergh Gift from Sea iii. 40 Now it is the moon, solitary in the sky, full and round, replete with power.
2001 J. Coe Rotters' Club (2002) 128 I wonder if there are some moments in life not only ‘worth purchasing with worlds’, but so replete with emotion that they become stretched, timeless.
c. Filled or crowded with people or animals.
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the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > [adjective] > full > crowded
thickc893
replete?a1475
frequentc1540
throng1557
thicky1587
thronged1605
celebrious1611
crowded1612
stiff1683
swarming1810
multitudinous1820
throngful1830
dense1842
swarmy1858
teeminga1873
swarmed1885
mobbed1898
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1874) V. 261 (MED) The Saxones..desirede of the Britones, comme to Briteyne, takenge with theyme thre grete schippes replete with men.
1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. iii. iii. 249 The tempillis war replete with men and women.
1596 Raigne of Edward III sig. A3 The Realme of Fraunce, Repleat with Princes of great parentage. View more context for this quotation
1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena iv. 122 Don Eulavio's house..he founde open and repleate with servants.
1767 W. Harte Amaranth 90 Methought I wander'd in a Fairy vale: Replete with people of each sex and age.
1775 J. Bailey Let. in Coll. Maine Hist. Soc. (1857) 5 447 The Commodore, perceiving the streets replete with people, oxen, and horses, directed his men to fire over the tops of the houses.
1831 Spirit of Times (N.Y.) 10 Dec. 3/2 In the street you see the Omnibus rolling along with rapidity, replete with smiling passengers.
1860 F. R. Page Conc. Hist. & Descr. Newfoundland iii. 23 Those [vessels] of the French count nearly 400 sail, mostly of large tonnage, replete with men and a proportion of boys.
1907 Proc. 18th Ann. Convent. National Assoc. Life Underwriters 129 It is our obligation today to..make every field between Massachusetts Bay and the Golden Gate replete with men crying the advantages of life insurance.
2004 M. Beckerman Generation S.L.U.T. 96 The halls are replete with young men and women partaking in the drunken, ancient ritual of Freak Dancing.
2. † a. Originally and chiefly Medicine. Suffering from or affected by plethora (sense 1); plethoric; full of blood; (also) fleshy, stout. Obsolete.
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the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > broad shape or physique > [adjective] > fat or plump
fatc893
frimOE
fullOE
overfatOE
greatOE
bald1297
roundc1300
encorsivea1340
fattishc1369
fleshyc1369
fleshlyc1374
repletea1398
largec1405
corsious1430
corpulentc1440
corsyc1440
fulsome1447
portlyc1487
corporate1509
foggy fata1529
corsive1530
foggish?1537
plump1545
fatty1552
fleshful1552
pubble1566
plum1570
pursy1576
well-fleshed1576
gross?1577
fog1582
forfatted1586
gulchy1598
bouksome1600
fat-fed1607
meatified1607
chuff1609
plumpya1616
bloat1638
blowze-like1647
obese1651
jollya1661
bloated1664
chubbed1674
pluffya1689
puffya1689
pussy1688
sappy1694
crummy1718
chubby1722
fodgel1724
well-padded1737
beefy1743
plumpish1753
pudsy1754
rotund1762
portable1770
lusty1777
roundabout1787
well-cushioned1802
plenitudinous1803
stout1804
embonpointc1806
roly-poly1808
adipose1810
roll-about1815
foggy1817
poddy1823
porky1828
hide-blown1834
tubby1835
stoutish1836
tubbish1836
superfatted1841
pottle-bodied1842
pincushiony1851
opulent1882
well-covered1884
well-upholstered1886
butterball1888
endomorphic1888
tisty-tosty1888
pachyntic1890
barrel-bodied1894
overweight1899
pussy-gutted1906
upholstered1924
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. vii. iv. 347 Þe body is plectorik and replete, þe face [MS place] is somdel toswolle wiþ stepe yȝen.
a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 70 (MED) He bledde at þe wounde ech day, so þat þe senewe [read wounde] miȝt not be to myche replete eiþer ful of blood.
c1450 J. Metham Physiognomy in Wks. (1916) 136 (MED) The schuldrys, qwan thei be replet, ful of flesch, thei betokyn strengh.
c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 78v (MED) Yf þe bodi be replet, þou schalt voide þe humouris wiþ purgaciouns.
1588 W. Clowes tr. De Apostematibus in Prooued Practise for Young Chirurgians 161 In a freckled bodie, if the bodie be much replete vniuersally, it is good to open the basilica veyne.
1621 Knolles's Gen. Hist. Turkes (ed. 3) 1336 Seeing that the fatnesse of his repleat bodie would not suffer them to take away his life presently.
1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ i. xiv. 26 They are more plump and replet in their bodies,..then those that drink altogether Wine.
1739 J. Sparrow tr. H. F. Le Dran Observ. Surg. iii. 12 The Patient being of a strong and replete Habit of Body.
b. Filled to satisfaction with food or drink; sated, full; gorged. Frequently with with; formerly also with †of.
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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [adjective] > fed or nourished > filled with food
fullOE
full-feedinga1382
repletea1400
satiate1440
full-fed?1530
full of bread?1570
strut1577
full-mouthed1610
crop-full1645
the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > excessive consumption of food or drink > [adjective] > over-fed, gorged, or sated
full of foodOE
surfeitousc1390
repletea1400
satiate1440
fulsome1447
overfed1579
surfeited1584
gorged1594
overgorged1607
gluttoneda1658
saturated1658
throat-full1681
quat?c1730
stalled1740
englutted1814
cloyed1830
stodged1873
a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 205 (MED) Whanne he is replete of mete, he schulde baþe him or traueile him-silf.
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Pardoner's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 161 Whan he of wyn was replet [v.r. repleet] at his feste.
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 15 (MED) Cromes fallenge from the table of lordes, whiche, replete [L. saturati], lefte fragmente to theire childre.
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) xxv. 76 They were all satysfyed and replete and had well dynyd.
1667 J. Evelyn Publick Employm. 112 The Fox would not suffer the Hedge-hog to chase away the Flies, and Ticks that sucked him, lest when those were replete, more hungry ones should succeed in their places.
1734 J. Miller Mother-in-law Epil. Applaud fair Water, with Champaign replete; And, after six full Courses, rail at Meat.
1811 A. de Beauclerc Ora & Juliet III. 134 So replete was she of the good things of the table, that Zaire stared at her in wonder.
1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid iii, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 178 With the banquet replete..he had lain full length in his lair.
1929 W. B. Seabrook Magic Island iii. 43 With good appetite [I] stuffed myself with goat flesh and washed down the meats with more white rum, and dozed, replete and vastly contented.
1960 ‘Miss Read’ Fresh from Country (1962) xviii. 193 Pleasantly replete, Anna returned to the afternoon session in a state of semi-somnolence.
2002 Trav. Afr. Winter 63/1 Our Bushman tracker, also replete with rusks and sugared Earl Grey tea, sat huddled in his anorak, gloves and balaclava.
c. Physically filled or covered until no space is empty; containing or holding as much or as many as possible; full. Frequently with with; formerly also with †of. Now rare.With quot. c1405 cf. sense 2a.
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the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > [adjective] > full
fullOE
chargedc1400
repletec1405
replesheda1450
gretfulc1540
torc1540
replenished1548
freight1565
freighted1567
implete1568
chocker1956
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Nun's Priest's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 137 Ye ben ful colerik of complexion Ware the sonne in his Ascension, Ne fynde yow nat replet [v.rr. repleet, replite] of humors hote.
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 87 After be yt replete [?c1425 Paris fille it; L. repleatur] wiþ homely exsiccatyuez & be it couered wiþ diapalma.
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 135 (MED) The durres of that floode callede Nilus be stoppedde, þro whiche stoppenge the pleyne growndes of Egipte be replete with water.
c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. ix. ii. f. 111v/2 Ane well sprang vp..with sic haboundance of blud, that all the stretis wer repleite thairof.
1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 113/2 Infuse theron the expressed oyle, till the glasse be wholy repleate.
1614 A. Gorges tr. Lucan Pharsalia x. 440 Quaffing sweet wines in Bowles repleate.
1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. ii. 88 By his side a Pouch he wore Replete with strange Hermetick Powder.
1726 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xv. 149 A golden ew'r..Replete with water from the chrystal springs.
a1774 O. Goldsmith Surv. Exper. Philos. (1776) II. 3 All places on the surface of the earth are replete with air.
1806 B. M'Mahon Amer. Gardener's Cal. 229 This is a small black round berry, replete with a sugary juice.
1883 J. M. Duncan Clin. Lect. Dis. Women (ed. 2) xviii. 183 Making the peritoneum to protrude..as a pouch, which, when replete, resembled a cyst.
2004 L. J. Seligmann Peruvian Street Lives 11 I returned with my shopping bag replete with apples, fresh bread, an avocado, [etc.].
3.
a. Great in amount or degree; having all the essential characteristics or qualities; perfect, complete. Now rare.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > [adjective] > complete or full
fulleOE
fullyOE
plaina1325
plenala1450
replete?a1500
replenished1548
stuffeda1616
plenitudinary1647
a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Lion & Mouse l. 1583 in Poems (1981) 63 As fals plesance, myngit with cair repleit.
c1586 J. Stewart Poems (1913) 161/4 Dewyise celest is in thé so repleit.
a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) ii. iii. 177 To whom I promise A counterpoize: If not to thy estate, A ballance more repleat . View more context for this quotation
1637 T. Jordan Poet. Varieties 41 A Grave, Where the beauty most repleate Wormes will eate.
1769 E. Bancroft Ess. Nat. Hist. Guiana 328 They are mutually entertained..with a variety of fables, which are merry, significant, and replete.
1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters xvii. 425 Among the subordinate characters, not one is drawn with more replete originality than that of Owen Glendower.
1970 C. Beaton Diary May in Self Portrait with Friends (1979) xxvii. 405 I had enjoyed myself and the evening for me was more than replete.
b. Complete with the requisite attributes; furnished with that which is expected or required.
ΚΠ
1974 Yachting Jan. 162/1 She comes replete with sails, wheel, engine, head, sink and personal bar.
1984 T. C. Boyle Budding Prospects (1985) i. ii. 18 I..blundered into an officer dressed in the uniform of the California Highway Patrol, replete with mirror shades, Wehrmacht boots and outsized gunbelt.
1989 Car & Driver Sept. 65/1 Stylish Japanese-motif dealerships, replete with..babbling brooks..and shoji-screened ‘contemplation areas’.
2007 Record (Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont.) (Nexis) 23 June 12 One's own government is planning to legislate national identity, replete with a day set aside for hand-on-heart civil pride.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
repletev.
/rᵻˈpliːt/, U.S. /rəˈplit/, /riˈplit/ 1. transitive. Usually in passive.† d. To fill (a place) with noise or a report. Obsolete. rare.
a. To fill (a receptacle or space) to capacity; to stuff, cram; to satiate. Also (esp. in later use): to fill (a person, the stomach) with food or drink; to satiate; (reflexive) to fill oneself with food, have one's fill. Chiefly with with. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feed or nourish [verb (reflexive)] > fill with food
replete?a1425
the mind > possession > supply > provide or supply (something) [verb (transitive)] > provide or supply (a person or thing) with anything > stock (a place, etc.) with something
fillOE
store1264
pitchc1300
stuffc1386
fretc1400
replete?a1425
enstorea1450
engrange1480
plenish1488
freightc1503
people1581
stocka1640
stack1652
bestore1661
to lay in1662
the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > take up (space or a place) [verb (transitive)] > fill
afilleOE
fillOE
fullOE
chargea1250
replenish?a1425
replete?a1425
steek?1440
upfillc1440
plenish1488
prime1513
accloy1581
supplya1616
adimplete1657
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 41 After þis comeþ þai to ȝolkez of eiren rere & to brotthez..And no maner replete hem [?c1425 Paris fille þay ham; L. repleant se] noȝt, And þe wombe of hem be euer laxe.
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 60v Perticler indicacionz, of which ar founden þo þat shal replete [?c1425 Paris fulfillen] þe concauiteez of a wonde, beþ 4.
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1872) IV. 243 (MED) The waterleches didde replete [L. replevit] the cite of Neapolis with a multitude infinite.
1514 S. Appulby Fruyte of Redemcyon xiv. sig. C.iv Thyn eers, nose, and thy mouth repleted with thy blode.
1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 129 Than Calfis and brint Sacrifice Thy Aulter sall repleit.
1620 T. Venner Via Recta iii. 50 It repleteth their stomackes with crude and phlegmaticke humors.
1636 F. Quarles Elegie Sir J. Cæsar sig. A8 Repleat thy self with everlasting Manna.
1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 407 A person repleated with all humane literature, antient Histories, and Geography.
1730 T. Fuller Exanthematologia i. 241 If the Intestines be depleted so late as not to have Time to be moderately repleted again with fresh Contents..they will be craving.
1764 J. Randall Semi-Virgilian Husbandry x. 266 It has two happy effects,..one in effectually destroying the weeds, and the other in repleting the internal and external pores,..with repulsive powers.
1836 R. Weston Visit to U.S. & Canada 219 It is a common but very disagreeable practice with the Americans, after having repleted themselves, as they term it, to sit upon a rocking-chair, and swing to and fro belching at a terrible rate.
1860 T. Laycock Mind & Brain II. x. 293 If the desire to eat continues after the stomach is repleted, its gratification is gluttony.
1958 J. Betjeman Coll. Poems (1997) 291 Do they haunt their successors and you as you sit here repleted With entrées and roasts?
b. To supply, stock, or populate with people or things. rare after 16th cent.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > furnishing with inhabitants > [verb (transitive)]
set971
publish?a1400
inhabitc1400
seedc1400
man?a1425
peoplea1475
peoplish1530
repletec1540
empeople1582
popule1588
world1589
appopulate1625
populate1885
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > rear animals [verb (transitive)] > fill or stock with animals
repletec1540
repeople1639
stocka1640
c1540 A. Borde Bk. for to Lerne sig. B iijv A fayre gardyn repleatyd with herbes.
c1540 A. Borde Bk. for to Lerne sig. B iijv A parke repletyd with dere.
a1549 A. Borde Fyrst Bk. Introd. Knowl. (1870) 217 Egipt is repleted now with infydele alyons.
1845 Ainsworth's Mag. 8 116 The house will scarcely hold, as it is, the accumulation of bargains with which he has repleted it.
1992 United Press Internat. (Nexis) 24 Dec. A home-made nativity crib repleted with cotton wool figurines has pride of place in the sitting room.
c. To fill (something immaterial, esp. a period of time). rare after 16th cent.
ΚΠ
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. cxvj Another sort, adiudged that present time, to be moste ieoperdus, and moste repleted with perilles.
1589 A. Dowriche French Hist. Ded. sig. A3 Repleated oft with wandring change recount your life to be.
1996 Newsweek (Nexis) 15 Apr. 18 Our history is repleted with examples of this intolerance.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > make a loud sound or noise [verb (transitive)] > fill with noise
fordin?1553
replete1573
bedin1880
the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > take up (space or a place) [verb (transitive)] > fill > specifically in immaterial sense > with noise or news
replete1573
1573 T. Twyne tr. Virgil in T. Phaer & T. Twyne tr. Virgil Whole .xii. Bks. Æneidos xi. sig. Gg ivv With wofull cries and piteous shoutes the town they do repleat.
1694 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais (1737) V. 229 Your placid Life, here inaudite before, Repletes the Town of Lugdun ore and ore.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > take up (space or a place) [verb (transitive)] > fill > specifically in immaterial sense
fillOE
fulfila1300
replete1482
replenishc1529
stuff1531
install1577
charge1581
saturate1737
brim1844
supercharge1846
implete1862
earwig1880
infill1880
1482 Monk of Evesham 30 Y felte me repletyd there in the resceyuing of tho discyplynys.
1542 T. Becon Newe Pathway vnto Praier xxx. sig. N.ijv That yu mayst be repleted with the knowlege of spiritual thynges.
1612 R. Sheldon 1st Serm. after Conversion 6 It also repleteth the mind with such a treasurie of discourse.
1657 A. Cokayne Obstinate Lady ii. iii. 25 Ile not desire the Muses to repleat My willing genius with Poetick heat.
?1773 C. Cayley Tour Holland 81 Thy radiance bright Repletes my ransom'd soul with cloudless peace.
1863 A. Steel Poet. Wks. (ed. 2) 42 By His anomalous munificence, In lavishly with life repleting all.
3. transitive. To fill again; to replenish.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > supply > provide or supply (something) [verb (transitive)] > provide or supply (a person or thing) with anything > stock (a place, etc.) with something > re-stock
restorea1375
refresha1398
refurnish1531
replete1614
recruita1661
restocka1680
the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > take up (space or a place) [verb (transitive)] > fill > again
replenish1612
replete1614
refill1615
recharge1839
1614 A. Gorges tr. Lucan Pharsalia x. 433 The Torrid Zone with heates, Held them from doing of those feates, To see what springs warme Nyle repleates.
1704 T. D'Urfey Abradatus & Panthea i, in Tales 10 Scarce had the Pale Empress of the night..twice repleted, shone Serene and Bright.
1744 H. Brooke Female Seducers in E. Moore Fables Females Sex xv. 118 The moon repletes her waining face.
1808 Philadelphia Med. & Physical Jrnl. 3 21 I have, when called in one dangerous case, when the patient had been bled, repleted the system with nourishment.
1882 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. I. 155 [Hamathites] were transported into Samaria by the Assyrians to replete that depopulated district.
1912 Times 8 Jan. 7/5 I can secure from friends the necessary financial support for the discharge of the Receivership, for repleting the company's working capital.
1998 People (Nexis) 7 June 10 Some sweet Parisian music will provide gentle accompaniment to the serious business of repleting vital stocks of blood.
Derivatives
reˈpleted adj. now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > spending time > [adjective] > filled or occupied
repleted1592
the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [adjective] > fed or nourished > well fed or nourished
fatc893
well-nourishedc1300
full-feedinga1382
well-feda1398
feasted1440
well-nurturedc1450
home-fed1573
corn-fed1576
stall-fed1589
repleted1592
well-feasted1611
high-fed1612
succulent1673
corn-fed1787
1592 N. Gyer Eng. Phlebotomy 28 For the emptied and wanting partes by the long small veines draw bloud forth of the full partes, & repleated members.
1667 R. Allestree Causes Decay Christian Piety viii. 204 They preferr'd a repleted slavery, before a hungry freedom.
1768 R. Schomberg Van Swieten’s Comm. Abridged II. 301 Should..the motion through the repleted vessels be..encreased, we may then pronounce there are hopes of getting so far the better of that resistance..as to procure an easy discharge.
1843 J. H. Ingraham Gipsy of Highlands x. 28 The money-lender had drawn all the blood from that vein, and, like the repleted leech, dropped his hold upon it!
1916 T. Oliver & C. Williams Dis. Occup. (ed. 3) iii. 103 There is, in consequence of the muscular exertion, a repleted condition of the visceral veins.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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