gormandize
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Hawaiian oranges were delicious, although "I seldom eat more than 10 or 15 at a sitting, however, because I despise to see anybody gormandize."
From Time Magazine Archive
Once a year, at the village club dinner, they gormandize to repletion.
From The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies by Besant, Walter, Sir
They did not gormandize, for gluttony leads to a fit of indigestion, and that leads to bad temper.
From Mated from the Morgue A tale of the Second Empire by O'Shea, John Augustus
What title to gormandize over the butcher's fat joints, and the baker's quartern loaves, if they who furnish them are left to gnaw bones, and live upon crumbs?
From The Wanderer (Volume 2 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Burney, Fanny
Moreover, the father betrays certain tendencies to gormandize not altogether in harmony with the profession of an ascetic….
From Two Years in the French West Indies by Hearn, Lafcadio
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The Merchant of Venice
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Henry IV, Part 2
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