gormandize
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Hawaiian oranges were delicious, although "I seldom eat more than 10 or 15 at a sitting, however, because I despise to see anybody gormandize."
From Time Magazine Archive
Because he paid his half dollar for meals at the taverns on the way, Tilghman seemed to feel himself licensed to gormandize at a beastly rate.
From Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. XLII., May 1851 by Various
Their power to gormandize seems unlimited, and the number of insects they can swallow without protest is almost incredible.
From The Renewal of Life; How and When to Tell the Story to the Young by Morley, Margaret Warner
V. eat, feed, fare, devour, swallow, take; gulp, bolt, snap; fall to; despatch, dispatch; discuss; take down, get down, gulp down; lay in, tuck in*; lick, pick, peck; gormandize &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus by Roget, Peter Mark
Singers also are proverbially prone to gormandize; and though the Bird of Paradise unfortunately possessed the smallest mouth in all Singingland, it is astonishing how she pecked!
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright
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The Merchant of Venice
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