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

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

From Making People Happy by Fisher, Harrison

He was an easy, gormandizing, good fellow, shapelessly fat, and he never had stirred himself during his month of freedom to do any courting.

From The Chase of Saint-Castin and Other Stories of the French in the New World by Catherwood, Mary Hartwell

"At all events, you might have brought away my epaulettes," replied he; "but you youngsters think of nothing but gormandizing."

From Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 by Marryat, Frederick