replete
nounEtymology From Middle English replete (adjective) and repleten (verb), from Old French replet, from Latin repletus.
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A honeypot ant.
replete
adj/ɹɪˈpliːt/
Etymology From Middle English replete (adjective) and repleten (verb), from Old French replet, from Latin repletus.
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Abounding, amply provided.
- A kitchen replete with all the ultimate appliances.
- A peacock reign'd, whose glorious sway His subjects with delight obey: His tail was beauteous to behold, Replete with goodly eyes and gold.1730, Jonathan Swift, The Pheasant and the Lark:
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- I am less unhappy than the rest, because I have a mind replete with images.1759, Samuel Johnson, “chapter 12”, in Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia:
- "Salisbury Cathedral, my dear Jonas, . . . is an edifice replete with venerable associations."1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, chapter 44, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC:
- History is replete with instances of great men ruled by their barbers.1916, Elbert Hubbard, “Seneca”, in Little Journeys: Volume 8—Great Philosophers:
- Liberal activists promised a well-funded summertime blitz, replete with home-state rallies and million-dollar ad campaigns, to try to ramp up pressure on a handful of Senate Democrats opposed to changing the rules.2021 June 22, Nicholas Fandos, “Republicans Block Voting Rights Bill, Dealing Blow to Biden and Democrats”, in The New York Times:
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Gorged, filled to near the point of bursting, especially with food or drink.
- And what an afternoon! To lie, after this feast, on their bellies in the grass, replete like animals […]1901, Bret Harte, “Three Vagabonds of Trinidad”, in Under the Redwoods:
- In the evening, replete with deer meat, resting on his elbow and smoking his after-supper cigarette, he said[…]1913, Jack London, “chapter15”, in The Valley of the Moon:
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Category theory, Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Isomorphism-closed: Inheriting all the isomorphisms of C. Formally: such that for any isomorphism f in C, if f 's source is in S, then f and f 's target is also in S.
Of a subcategory S of C
- Derived terms
- lymphoreplete, overreplete, repletely, repleteness