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Replet(e, -pleit(t, adj. Also: -pleite; -pleat(e. [ME and e.m.E. repleet (Wyclif). -plete (a1450), F. replet, replète (late 12th c. in Greimas), L. replēt-, p.p. stem of replēre to fill.]

1. Physically filled with some thing or substance; full of. a1500 Henr. Fab. 1440.
We wer repleit and had grit aboundance Off alkin thingis sic as to vs effeird 1531 Bell. 1531 Boece II 63.
With sic haboundance of blud, that all the stretis wer repleite thairof Ib. 79.
The campe repleit with deid carionis 1533 Boece 121.
Twa veschell … replete with powder and asis 1535 Stewart 43634.
Ane rois of gold … Of balsamon fulfillit and repleit 1581-1623 James VI Poems I 31/217.
That is a horne of plenty well repleat 1664 M. McKaill Moffat Well in Sciennes Conv. lviii.
There is a well at the chappel … alwaies replet with water

2. lit. and fig. Fully or abundantly supplied with (a material or non-material thing); abundantly endowed with; possessed of in abundance.(1) a1500 Henr. Orph. 387.
Orpheus, wyth inwart lufe replete [Asl. replet](b) c1500 Rowll Cursing 195 (B).
And dyvers facis repleit with yre 1533 Boece 352b.
The place … repleit with beistis, fische in lowchis and foulis abownding in the ryver a1585 Maitl. Q. 109/33.
Royall rubie with all riches repleit c1600 Montg. Suppl. xxv 5.
The surgeing seyis, with stormie streameis repleit Ib. xxxii 16.
That I may still With constantt hairtt and houp repleitt abaid thai will(c) 1632 Lithgow Trav. ix 409.
He was repleate with all abhominable vices(2) 1490 Irland Mir. I 103/33.
This lady was repleit and fillit of all wertu 1531 Bell. 1531 Boece I 13.
Ane riche realme, repleit [M. repleitt] of all minis of mettall Id. Livy II 161/12.
Thus had al the Romane tentis almaist bene replete of seditioun vrbane c1552 Lynd. Mon. 604.
Christ … send the holy Spreit … to that intentioun, Thay, beand of all languagis repleit [etc.] 15.. Clar. v 2786.
And full of joy was all the toun repleit 1560 Rolland Seven S. 6481.
This lady of all malice repleit a1568 Scott xxvi 9.
Ȝit thay ar planeist and repleit Of falset and dissait 1596 Dalr. I 164/33.
Ane auaritious persone, repleit of al wickitnes

3. Crowded (with people). 1533 Bell. Livy I 249/11.
The tempillis war replete with men and women Ib. 252/5.
The pepill war sa halelie brocht out … that all the tempillis in the ciete war replete

4. Plentiful; complete; entire. a1500 Henr. Fab. 1583.
As fals plesance myngit with cair repleit c1590 J. Stewart 161/4.
Dewyise celest is in thé so repleit