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▪ I. gormandizing, vbl. n.|ˈgɔːməndaɪzɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. gormandize; excessive eating, gluttony. Also attrib.
1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, v. v. 57 Leaue gourmandizing: Know the Graue doth gape For thee [etc.]. 1652C. B. Stapylton Herodian 48 His night disports and gormandizing diet. a1661B. Holyday Juvenal 260 Not so much gourmandizing, as daintiness, seems here to be intended. 1835W. Irving Tour Prairies xxvii, A rude kind of feasting, or rather gormandizing, prevailed throughout the camp. 1837― Capt. Bonneville III. 15 The gormandizing powers of this worthy, were, at first, matters of surprise and merriment. 1889Jessopp Coming of Friars iii. 155 The weak point in the monastic life of the thirteenth century was the gormandizing.
▪ II. gormandizing, ppl. a.|ˈgɔːməndaɪzɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That gormandizes; gluttonous.
1596Bp. W. Barlow Three Serm. iii. 119 That Gurmandizing glutton who spent so much vpon his paunch daily. 1657S. Purchas Pol. Flying-Ins. 329 Against these gourmandizeing Epicures God grieveth and denounceth a woe. 1712Arbuthnot John Bull iii. ix, Retrench but a sirloin of beef and a peck-loaf in a week, from thy gormandizing stomach. 1865Trollope Belton Est. xvii. 195 A regiment of lazy, gormandizing servants. |