plenish

American  

[plen-ish] / ˈplɛn ɪʃ /

verb (used with object)

Chiefly Scot.

1. to fill up; stock; furnish.

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plenish British  

/ ˈplɛnɪʃ /

verb

1. (tr) to fill, stock, or resupply

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Other Word Forms

• plenisher noun
• plenishment noun
• unplenished adjective

Etymology

Origin of plenish

1425–75; late Middle English plenyss < Middle French pleniss-, long stem of plenir to fill, ultimately < Latin plēnus full. See plenum, -ish ²

Example Sentences

Or how, when thus restored, may daedal Earth Foster and plenish with her ancient food, Which, kind by kind, she offers unto each?

From On the Nature of Things by Leonard, William Ellery

Surely some fortunate hour 5 Phaon will come, and his beauty Be spent like water to plenish   Need of that beauty!

From Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics by Carman, Bliss

The pretty cowherd would fill the pail with water to plenish the tubs from which her charges drank.

From Norway by Jungman, Beatrix

Far from that, but He will draw eye to eye and lip to lip, so both be pure, saying, 'Be fruitful, and plenish the earth.'

From The Forest Lovers by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

Where is the singer whose large notes and clear   Can heal and arm and plenish and sustain?

From The Poems of William Watson by Watson, William