gormandizing

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

From Time Magazine Archive

"Yet the prohibition has produced good results, because it has set a limit to gormandizing."

From The Jew by Kraszewski, Jo?zef Ignacy

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

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

From Making People Happy by Fisher, Harrison

You might call it a marsh; but there was no mud, no dark slimy water, no stagnant scum; there were no rank yellow lilies, no gormandizing frogs, no swinish mud-turtles.

From Solomon by Woolson, Constance Fenimore