gormandizing
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The author of this hedonistic, gormandizing prayer is a Christian clergyman of serene faith.
From Time Magazine Archive
Social glasses of wine are my aversion; public dinners are my abomination; all species of gormandizing my utter scorn and contempt.
From Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made by James Dabney McCabe
Did they think people could not live without gormandizing as they did?
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 by Various
The Ool, or Oily sandwich:—rare gormandizing then; for oily it was called, because of fat old joints, and hams, and rounds, and barons of sea-beeves and walrusses, which then crowned the stratum-board.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Herman Melville
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 Alfred Brittain
