gormandizing

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Maybe 264 I’ll shoot a bird to-morrow, and then I’ll have a gormandizing jag.”

From Colorado Jim by Goodchild, George

First parents of the human species, whose gormandizing is historic, you who fell for the sake of an apple, what would you not have done for a turkey with truffles?

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright

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 Peters, Lulu Hunt

That she should have any affection for the doddering, gormandizing old man--he was nearly fifty--was hardly to be expected.

From Roman Women by Brittain, Alfred