Middle English Dictionary Entry
replēte adj. & ppl.
Entry Info
| Forms | replēte adj. & ppl. Also replē̆t, replite, reiplete. |
| Etymology | OF replet(e & L replētus. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Filled (with sth.), full; filled (with men); covered (with water, gems); (b) of persons: filled with food or drink, sated, satisfied; also, provided (with delicacies); also, spiritually satisfied; also, sated (with an aroma); of a mare: impregnated; (c) med. & physiol. having an excess of humors, full (of blood, humors), plethoric; ?also, fat, stout; (d) imbued (with a quality, characteristic), full (of an emotion); filled (with the Holy Spirit, divine grace); (e) abundantly supplied (with goods, riches, provisions).
Associated quotations
a
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)87a/a : After be yt replete [Ch.(2): fille it; L repleatur] wiþ homely exsiccatyuez & be it couered wiþ diapalma.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)136b/a : Þe mouþ replete [Ch.(2): fillede] with water, þe heued turned bacward, som dropez be instilled.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(3) (Htrn 95)70b/a : Þe vtilite whi þat a mannes ȝerde is holowe is be cause þat it mowe summe tyme be replete of spirite and vapour.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)169a/a : When woundes & olde sores be sufficientlye clensed or þat þe concauite of hem be not fullie replete wiþ fleische, þu schalt leie to þi consolidatiue.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)5.2950 : Whos hatful story, repleet of wrechchydnesse..Bochas list nat expresse Mor of his lyff.
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)1.135 : The durres of that floode callede Nilus be stoppedde, þro whiche stoppenge the pleyne growndes of Egipte be replete with water.
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)5.101 : This Dioclician..commaundede hym selfe to be worschippede as godde, usenge clothes and schoone replete with gemmes.
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)5.159 : The nostrelles of the elephantes and the eeres of theire horses were replete with flees.
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)5.261 : The Saxones..desirede of the Britones, comme to Briteyne, takenge with theyme thre grete schippes replete with men.
- c1475(c1450) Idley Instr.(Cmb Ee.4.37)2.A.1841 : The dragon was large and..Replete of venem bothe hedde and taille.
b
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pard.(Manly-Rickert)C.489 : Herodes..Whan he of wyn was replet [vr. repleet] at his feste, Right at his owene table he yaf his heste To sleen the Baptist Iohn ful giltelees.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)205/14 : Whanne he is replete of mete, he schulde baþe him or traueile him-silf.
- (?1406) Hoccl.MR (Hnt HM 111)315 : Whan the cuppe has thus my neede sped, And sumdel more than necessitee, With repleet spirit wente I to my bed And bathid ther in superfluitee.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)101b/b : Þis enpostume falleþ when þat a man..vseþ to be stewed aftir þat he haþ eten and is replete, so þat þe blode is meued to his extremites.
- ?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)92/12 : Whanne he haþ me he is fillid with replecioun, and whanne he is repleet, ȝit he hungreþ for desier.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)4.800 : Fed stalons faat goth now to gentyl maris, And, they replete [L repletis foeminis], ayeyn goth they to stabul.
- (c1443) Pecock Rule (Mrg M 519)356 : He muste reule his body in temperaunce from glotonye..for a replete wombe soone affomeþ out in to leccherie.
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)50.504 : Whanne to soper that they weren set, with Alle delicasyes they weren Replet.
- a1450 *Aelred Inst.(2) (Bod 423)275 : Whan thou art thus replet..with deuocioun, reste the.
- c1450 Alph.Tales (Add 25719)18/24 : Hym thoght þer come so swete a savur oute of his parcell bed & his erbis þat he was so replete þerwith þat ij or iij dayes him liste never at e[ate].
- c1460 Tree & Fruits HG (McC 132)114/21 : Swetnes of deuocioun of þe wich þe hert is replete and made mylde.
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)1.15 : Cromes fallenge from the table of lordes, whiche, replete [L saturati], lefte fragmente to theire childre.
- a1500(a1450) Ashmole SSecr.(Ashm 396)60/11 : If any man constipat or replete [Lambeth: engrutyd of mete; Abbrev.: the bely full] entreth bayn, or bath, the dolour..of the intestines and bowels, he may be sure of.
- a1500 Leg.Cross BC(1) (Wor F.172)218 : Dauid and al his felawship wern ful replete with swete odour.
c
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.NP.(Manly-Rickert)B.4147 : Ye ben ful colerik of complexioun; Ware the sonne in his ascensioun, Ne fynde yow nat replet [vrr. repleet, replite] of humours hote.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)80b/b : Þe body is plectorik & replete, þe place [read: face] is somdel toswolle wiþ stepe yȝen.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)70/12 : He bledde at þe wounde ech day, so þat þe senewe [read: wounde] miȝt not be to myche replete eiþer ful of blood.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)242/24 : Þese ben þe signes þerof [of ophthalmia]: greet reednes, & þe veynes of þeiȝen be ful replete.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)305/34 : Summen maken cauterijs in vnclene bodies þat ben ful replet of yuele humours.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)23a/b : When forsoþ þe humours ar eked to þam self togider & makeþ plectoric, i. replete [Ch.(2): þe plectorie, i. swellynge, of humours], it is cured..by takyng away of blode.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)56a/b : Diete of al wounded men..oweþ to be thyn, colde, & drie, namely if þe pacient be a replete yonge man [Ch.(2): be replete and ȝonge].
- a1450(a1401) Chastising GC (Bod 505)124/8 : Þe wicked humoures bien stired and maken þe stomake replete.
- c1460(?c1400) Beryn (Nthld 55)197 : At soper & at mete..when veynys been som-what replete, The spiritis wol stere.
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)1.427 : Peple of that cuntre be replete with the melancholy lyke to the peple of Yrlonde.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)78b/b : Yf þe bodi be replet, þou schalt voide þe humouris wiþ purgaciouns.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)89b/a : As whanne þer is a man to replet of blood, and it brestiþ out oþirwhile at þe nose and oþirwhile at his mouþ.
- a1500(1422) Yonge SSecr.(Rwl B.490)241/9 : The stomake anoone shale be replete, or fulfillit, of Humours.
d
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)4.5129 : Þis Anthenor, ful of trecchery, Replet of falsehod & of doubilnesse, Gan his purpos vn-to hem expresse.
- ?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)53/25 : O wrecchidful myserie of man..so ful he is, repleet, of ignoraunce.
- ?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)126/6 : A man fyndeþ hym fulfild and repleet boþe with þe loue and charytee of me and also of his neiȝbore.
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Merlin (Corp-C 80)6236 : Of all vertwes sche is repleet.
- (1451) Capgr.St.Gilb.(Add 36704)76/28 : He, no man seand, no man herand, but with þe Holy Gost replet, þus spak in þe goost.
- a1475(a1456) Shirley Death Jas.(Add 5467)25 : O ye all so synfull, wreched, and mercilese Scottisshe folke, withoute prudens, and full replet of unavisid folie, I know wele that I shall nowe dye.
- a1475 Asneth (Hnt EL 26.A.13)781 : Pharaois sone was replete with sorwe, drede, & ire.
- ?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)57/2 : I Am þe prophete callyd Isaye, Replett with godys grett influens.
- a1500 With wooful hert & gret (Hrl 541)38 : Her nek is like þe holly flour Replete with all swete odour.
- c1500(a1450) ALacrim.(Hrl 2274)p.294 : In that tyme the trinite With all mercy is full replete; Therfor to wepe com lerne att me.
- 1600(?a1425) Chester Pl.(Hrl 2013)9/211 : I redd you all doe me [Lucifer] reverence, that ame repleth with heavenly grace.
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- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Phil.4.18 : Forsoth, I haue alle thingis, and habounde; I am repleet [vrr. fulfillid, fillid; L repletus] with tho thingis takun of Epafrodite.
- a1475 VPhilibert (Brog 2.1)p.16 : Where is now thy hyȝe palleys, reyplete of reches flouyng in gret abundanse?
- a1500 Let.Alex.(Wor F.172)47 : Porrus the kyng was devict and overcomen, of whos myghti men and Richesses with kyngly Iuels and vessel we bien Repleete.
- 1543(1464) Hardyng Chron.B (Grafton)p.321 : Then went thei furth vnto sainct Iohns towne, That was replete and full of all vitaile.