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disgorgement|dɪsˈgɔːdʒmənt| [f. prec. vb. + -ment: cf. OF. desgorgement (1548 in Hatz.-Darm.).] The action of disgorging; a discharging as from the throat or stomach.
c1477Caxton Jason 115 b, The cloth of golde shone by the disgorgements of the water. 1632Lithgow Trav. i. 13 This River of Tyber..made muster of his extravagant disgorgements. a1656Bp. Hall Rem. Wks. (1660) 162 The..presses are openly defiled with the most loathsome disgorgements of their wicked blasphemies. 1788Clarkson Impol. Slave Tr. 55 There is a continual disgorgement of seamen from these vessels into the islands. 1837Blackw. Mag. XLI. 146 The disgorgement of past plunder. |