gormandizing

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The author of this hedonistic, gormandizing prayer is a Christian clergyman of serene faith.

From Time Magazine Archive

Making Forty Mile with a view to dissipating his newly found wealth in a gormandizing “jag,” he sent the settlers in that ramshackle camp into wild excitement by producing nuggets of a size hitherto unmatched.

From Colorado Jim by Goodchild, George

Sometimes a well staged scene of gormandizing viewed from a seat in the second or third row center of a softly lighted, thick carpeted food emporium saves us the price of our own meal.

From Laugh and Live by Fairbanks, Douglas

He was one of countless individuals marked for a tidbit to glut the gormandizing of a trust.

From Making People Happy by Fisher, Harrison

Did they think people could not live without gormandizing as they did?

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 by Various