Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To vomit; spew out.
Wiktionary
- v. obsolete To vomit.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. obsolete To vomit.
Etymologies
- Latin evomitus, past participle of evomere to vomit forth; e out + vomere. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Ovid (Metam.xv. 513) says, speaking of the monster who attacked Hippolytus, patulo partem maris evomit ore.”
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1
“_Maris æmulus qui statis temporibus suos evomit & resorbet Aquas_; Which at certain times riseth and falleth after the manner of the Sea.”
“Postea lenis, et fractis aquis domitaque violentia, et spatio fessus, tandem ad [Greek: Delta] opidum per omnem Ægyptum vagus et dispersus, septem ingentibus ostiis in mare Ægytium se evomit.”
“idem ager Agrigentinus eructat limosas scaturigenes, et ut venae fontium sufficiunt rivis subjinistrandis, ita in hac Sicilae parte solo munquam deficiente, Aeterna rejectatione terram terra evomit.”
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
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