eructate

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He does not eructate, he does not slobber, he does not show his fist.

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  1. To belch forth or eject, as wind from the stomach. Ætna in times past hath eructated such huge gobbets of fire. Howell, Letters, I. i. 27.

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  • He does not eructate, he does not slobber, he does not show his fist. —  Latest Articles
  • To eructate sweet edifying doctrine —  The Saint's Tragedy
  • Mohammed, who liked sneezing because accompanied by lightness of body and openness of pores, said of it, "If a man sneeze or eructate and say 'Alhamdolillah' he averts seventy diseases of which the least is leprosy" (Juzám); also "If one of you sneeze, let him exclaim, 'Alhamdolillah,' and let those around salute him in return with, 'Allah have mercy upon thee!' and lastly let him say, 'Allah direct you and strengthen your condition."' —  Arabian nights. English
  • Or, Eryngo has been derived from the Greek _eruggarein_, to eructate, because the plant is, according to herbalists, a specific against belching). —  Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
  • Henderson, J.P., may be compelled to swallow such a titillating emetic from the head landlord as shall compel him to eructate to this oppressed and plundered man all the money he expended in making improvements, which remain to augment the value of the farm, but which, at the same time, were the means of ruining himself and his most respectable family: for, as the bard says, '_sio vos non vobis_,' &c, &c. —  The Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish Famine Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three
 

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  1. from Latin eructatum, past participle of eructare, belch forth: see eruct.
 

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