gormandizing

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The same may be said of soaking up gravy with bread, scraping up sauce with a spoon, scraping your plate and gormandizing upon one or two articles of food only.

From Our Deportment Or the Manners, Conduct and Dress of the Most Refined Society by Young, John H.

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

Clumsy, gormandizing clowns, fond of practical jokes, especially such as stealing eatables and drinkables.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham

Sometimes a well staged scene of gormandizing viewed from a seat in the second or third row center of a softly lighted, thick carpeted food emporium saves us the price of our own meal.

From Laugh and Live by Fairbanks, Douglas