Definition of "plethoric" [ple•thor•ic]

• Excessive in quantity; superabundant: "this successful industry of England, with its plethoric wealth” ( Thomas Carlyle). (adjective)
• Excessive in style; turgid: plethoric prose. (adjective)
• Characterized by an overabundance of blood. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Anthony Powell's "A Dance to the Music of Time" can be accurately described as plethoric Proust."
• "But the drug is contraindicated in cases associated with cerebral hyperaemia, in atheromatous conditions of the arteries, and in the so-called plethoric state -- _Beta's"
• "In what is called a plethoric state, or too great fulness of the body, it is likewise dangerous to use the cold bath without due preparation."