gormandizing
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The author of this hedonistic, gormandizing prayer is a Christian clergyman of serene faith.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Ool, or Oily sandwich:—rare gormandizing then; for oily it was called, because of fat old joints, and hams, and rounds, and barons of sea-beeves and walrusses, which then crowned the stratum-board.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Herman Melville
Shakespeare warns you to make thy body less, hence thy grace more; leave gormandizing, and know that the grave doth gape for thee thrice wider than for other men.
From Diet and Health With Key to the Calories by Lulu Hunt Peters
He wore away our forks and spoons With hard, incessant gormandizing; The Baker's, and, for some blue moons, The Milkman's bill were quite surprising.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 1, 1892 by Various
"We were only waiting for you to finish gormandizing."
From The Leader of the Lower School A Tale of School Life by John Campbell
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