gormandizing

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Making People Happy by Fisher, Harrison

The bourgeoisie were gormandizing on the solemn ruins of the Church which had become a place of rendez-vous, a mass of rubbish, soiled by petty puns and scandalous jests.

From Against the Grain by Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl)

This gormandizing Abbé de Voisenon, ever hanging, as it were, between pâtés and his grave, becomes now a rather interesting subject of study.

From The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 by Various

Making Forty Mile with a view to dissipating his newly found wealth in a gormandizing “jag,” he sent the settlers in that ramshackle camp into wild excitement by producing nuggets of a size hitherto unmatched.

From Colorado Jim by Goodchild, George