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单词 the glutton
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the (rich) glutton
b. the (rich) glutton, the rich man of the parable (Luke xvi. 19), who ‘fared sumptuously every day’.= Latin dives epulo, in the Vulgate heading of the chapter.
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c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. I. 1 Þere was a riche man þat disuside his richesse in pride and in glotonye.]
1413 Pilgr. Sowle (1483) iii. ix. 56 The riche gloton lacketh water to kele with his tonge.
?1570 W. Lauder Prettie Mirrour sig. A3 The Gluttoun, quha fed delicius..That petiit nocht, the pure Lazarus.
a1592 H. Smith Serm. (1622) 351 That fiery lake, where the Glutton begges but a drop of water to coole the tip of his tongue.
1722 D. Defoe Relig. Courtship i. ii. 69 Would you change your Condition with me that am the rich Glutton?
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