ventripotent

The ventripotent mulatto, the great cater, 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; but with whatever art that may be touched, and whatever indulgence, it will not be the portrait of a precision.

Memories and Portraits 2005

Of the ridiculous statue Manduce; and how and what the Gastrolaters sacrifice to their ventripotent god.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Of the ridiculous statue Manduce; and how and what the Gastrolaters sacrifice to their ventripotent god.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Of the ridiculous statue Manduce; and how and what the Gastrolaters sacrifice to their ventripotent god.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Of the ridiculous statue Manduce; and how and what the Gastrolaters sacrifice to their ventripotent god.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Of the ridiculous statue Manduce; and how and what the Gastrolaters sacrifice to their ventripotent god.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

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 Frederick Spencer Hamilton 1892

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 Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

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 Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

Of the ridiculous statue Manduce; and how and what the Gastrolaters sacrifice to their ventripotent god.

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518