ventripotent

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  1. Of great gastronomic capacity. [Rare and humorous.] The ventripotent mulatto [Dumas], the great eater, worker, earner, and waster, the man of much and witty laughter, the man of the great heart and alas ! of the doubtful honesty, is a figure not yet clearly set before the world; he still awaits a sober and yet genial portrait. R. L. Stevenson, Gossip on a Novel of Dumas's.

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  • Too strong for ventripotent me! —  In the Sweet Dry and Dry
  • Of the ridiculous statue Manduce; and how and what the Gastrolaters sacrifice to their ventripotent god. —  Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4
  • When placed on a surface of moist sand, the ventripotent creature is no better able to shift its position: curved into a fish-hook, it lies on its side. —  More Hunting Wasps
  • I do not speak from personal experience, for I detest the sweet, cloying stuff; but it occasionally fell to my lot to guide down-stairs the uncertain footsteps of some ventripotent Kommerzien-Rath, or even of Mr. Over-Inspector of Railways himself, both temporarily incapacitated by injudicious indulgence in Swedish Punch. —  The Days Before Yesterday
  • In short, the tiny creature of the first stage, so active and alert, is succeeded by a ventripotent grub, deprived of movement by its very obesity. —  The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles
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  1. from Latin venter (ventr-), belly, + poten (t-)s, present participle of posse, be able, have power.
 

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