eructate

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To eject wind from the stomach through the mouth; to eructate.

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"What beats me," James had once exclaimed, "is how a man like you who professes to admire—no, I believe you're honest—who does admire Stendhal, Turgenev, Flaubert and Merim�e, who recognizes the perfection of Manon Lescaut and Adolphe, who in a word has taste, can bring himself to eructate the Fall of Babylon."

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Eructate, e-ruk′tāt, v.t. to belch out, as wind from the stomach.—n.

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Associated words: ontology, metaphysics, ontological, ontologist. belch, v. eruct, expel, throw up; eructate. belching, n. eructation. belfry, n. bell-tower, campanile.

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After the blessed sacrament received,As surfeited with those celestial viands,And with the blood of life intoxicate,She lay entranced: and only stirred at timesTo eructate sweet edifying doctrineCulled from your darling sermons.

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