repletion
(rɪˈpliːʃən)
Forms: 4–5 replecioun, 5–6 replecion, -yon, (5 replicion, -ioun, 6 repleacion), 6– repletion; also 4–5 repleccio(u)n, 6 replexion.
[a. OF. repletion (mod.F. réplétion), replection (1314), replexion (1411), or ad. late L. replētiōn-em, n. of action from replēre: cf. replete a.]
1. The action of eating or drinking to excess; surfeit; the condition of body arising from this; † also, a full plethoric condition or habit of body.
| c 1386 Chaucer Nun's Pr. T. 17 Repleccion ne made hire neuere sik, Attempree diete was al hir phisik. c 1410 Master of Game (MS. Digby 182) Prol., I pocras tellith: Full repliciouns of metes sleith mo men then ony swerde or knyfe. 1482 Monk of Evesham (Arb.) 54 The rednesse and hete the whyche was in my face and in my bodye..douteles was of the feruent replecyon of wyne dronkyn before. 1542 Boorde Dyetary ix. (1870) 250 Replecyon [v.r. replexion] or a surfet is taken as well by gurgytacyons, or to moche drynkynge, as..by epulacyon. 1584 Cogan Haven Health cxxxiii. (1636) 135 Kid flesh..can cause none inflammation nor repletion. 1683 Tryon Way to Health 320 All this chiefly proceeds from Repletion, and too much Nourishment, and unconcocted matter. 1748 Anson's Voy. iii. ii. 313 We were neither disordered nor even loaded by this repletion. 1837 M. Donovan Dom. Econ. II. 329 A sense of heaviness in the stomach, resembling slight repletion. 1863 M. Howitt F. Bremer's Greece I. viii. 254 Everybody goes home to sit at table, and eat to repletion of an abundant repast. |
| fig. 1603 Florio Montaigne ii. xxiii. 393 Of such like repletion are States often seene to be sicke. 1791 Burke Let. Member Nat. Assembly Wks. 1792 III. 361 Your malady, in this respect, is a disorder of repletion. 1855 Smedley Occult Sciences 289 Our medical authority offers no solution of the difficulty, but sends us straight to the madhouse for a repletion of similar marvels. |
2. The fact or condition of being filled up, stuffed full, or crowded.
| 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. v. xiii. (Bodl MS.), Þe nose is..somtyme isette by folnes and replecion of stinkinge and corrupt humours. 1544 T. Phaer Regim. Lyfe (1533) C vj b, If there be replecion of fleum in y⊇ head first ye must purge with pilles of cochie. 1562 W. Bullein Bulwarke, Dial. Soarnes & Chir. (1579) 9 b, That in fyne, replecion and tencion of all the course of the vaynes doe come..by the meanes of the aboundance of bloud. 1791 Bentham Panopt. i. I. 49 When the establishment is in this state of repletion. 1870 Anderson Missions Amer. Bd. II. xxxviii. 346 The body of the house was filled to repletion by adults. |
3. The action of filling up; the filling
of a cavity or receptacle. ?
Obs.| 1646 Sir T Browne Pseud. Ep. 87 Nor is it only the exclusion of ayre by water, or repletion of cavities possessed thereby which causeth a pot of ashes to admit so great a quantity of water [etc.]. 1676 Worlidge Cyder (1691) 161 Which vacancy you may again supply..with other wine..; which repletion must be reiterated. c 1790 J. Imison Sch. Art I. 148 An increase of weight will be found..from a repletion..of the vacuities of the fresh water with saline particles. |
† b. That which serves to fill.
Obs. rare—1.
| 1760–72 H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) IV. 116 Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, will then become co-embodied in this divine body; they will be the repletion of it. |
4. The satisfaction of a desire or want.
| 1654 Whitlock Zootomia 297 That spendeth through necessity twelve Houres for a course Repletion of his Hunger. 1667 Decay Chr. Piety i. ¶5 Projecting the gratifying those desires in whose repletion we placed our happiness. 1690 Norris Beatitudes (1692) 95 So [it] prevents and anticipates that Repletion, which our Lord promises. 1836–7 Sir W. Hamilton Metaph. xliii. (1870) II. 450 If pleasure be the repletion of a want contrary to nature, that which contains the repletion will contain the pleasure. |
Hence
† reˈpletional a. Obs. rare—1.
| 1562 W. Bullein Bulwarke, Dial. Soarnes & Chir. 11 b, It is called repleccionall, when the humours increase beyonde their due measure. |