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ventripotent, a.|vɛnˈtrɪpətənt|
[a. F. ventripotent (Rabelais), f. L. ventri-, venter belly + potent-, potens powerful, etc.]
1. Having a large abdomen; big-bellied.
1611Cotgr., Ventripotent, ventripotent, big-paunch, bellie-able, huge-guts. [Hence in Blount.] 1892Harper's Mag. Sept. 504/2 His mind is obviously not of the finest fibre, nor his massive and ventripotent person either. 1905J. Fitzmaurice-Kelly Cervantes in Eng. 5 The short, ventripotent rustic [= Sancho Panza].
2. Having great capacity of stomach; gluttonous.
1823New Monthly Mag. VII. 115 These ventripotent melodists called up from the Red Sea of my port and claret all their buried swells, shakes, and cadences. 1837Blackw. Mag. XLII. 425 The ventripotent vermin [sc. fleas] were in the midst of their meal. 1863W. P. Lennox Biogr. Reminisc. I. 303 Louis des huîtres, as the ventripotent monarch was called.
Hence ventripoˈtential a. nonce-wd.; venˈtripotence rare.
1824New Monthly Mag. XI. 313 A ventri-potential citizen, into whose Mediterranean mouth good things are perpetually flowing; 1922Ventripotence [see ovablastic a.]. |