gormandize

• Lodgings on the route costs - it's galloped furiously from my last visit - US $ 15 with a standard breakfast with much variety and choice - not called buffet and not served in style - but tastier to my tongue than the insipid breakfast served at Kandalama and watching locals on a company outing gormandize - and become unfit for the scheduled seminar. —  Asian Tribune
• An Indian will gorge and gormandize, after a prolonged fast, on such quantities and qualities of food that, if the ordinary white man were to indulge in a like feast, he would be in imminent danger of literal rupture or explosion, or liable to end in sudden apoplectic seizures, or, in case of a too healthy and active digestion, liable, owing to a lack of a correspondingly active condition of the excretory organs, to go off in urćmic coma. —  History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance
• He was very gay at dinner, ate of most of the dishes, expressed pleasure at partaking of a plum pudding, ŕ l'Anglaise_, made by one of our English servants; was helped twice, and observed, that he hoped he should not shock us by eating so much: "But," added he, "the truth is, that for several months I have been following a most abstemious régime_, living almost entirely on vegetables; and now that I see a good dinner, I cannot resist temptation, though to-morrow I shall suffer for my gormandize, as I always do when I indulge in luxuries." —  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 556, July 7, 1832
• Winter had now arrived and Scipio suspended his operations, leaving famine and pestilence to complete what he had begun Capture of the City How fearfully these mighty agencies had laboured in the work of destruction during the interval while Hasdrubal continued to vaunt and to gormandize, appeared so soon as the Roman army proceeded in the spring of 608 to attack the inner town. —  The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)
• English, and the Scotch exceeded the latter in "over much and distemperate gormandize." —  For Whom Shakespeare Wrote

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