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单词 adephagia
释义

adephagian.

Forms: 1700s–1800s addephagia, 1700s–1800s adephagia.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin adephagia.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin adephagia (1562 or earlier; also 1679 in Blankaart; compare quot. 1684) < ancient Greek ἀδηϕαγία gluttony (in Hellenistic Greek also personified as a goddess) < ἀδηϕάγος greedy (see Adephaga n.) + -ία -ia suffix1; compare -phagia comb. form.
Medicine. Obsolete. rare.
Voracious or insatiable appetite (for food or certain foods).
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered nutrition > [noun] > excessive hunger
bulimiaa1398
dog's hunger1592
dogged hunger1599
dog hunger1605
canine appetite1609
dog appetite1615
doggish appetitea1620
ox-hunger1623
polyphagia1693
adephagia1753
polyphagy1802
hyperphagia1941
1684 tr. S. Blankaart Physical Dict. 5 Adephagia is the greediness of children, who ever now and then fall to fresh feeding before their former victuals are digested.]
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) Some use Addephagia in a more extensive sense, for voraciousness in the general, so as to comprehend the bulimia, pica, and malacia.
1805 T. Lewis Welsh-Eng. Dict. 147/2 Gwanc,..y wanc, the adephagia.
1892 Med. Age 10 509/2 A Mahomedan lady, at Rangoon, came under my treatment with the following symptoms: Debility, polydipsia, addephagia, pruritus vulvæ..and polyuria.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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