gormandizing
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The author of this hedonistic, gormandizing prayer is a Christian clergyman of serene faith.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 uncouth way in which they were gormandizing was terrible to witness.
From Missing Friends Being the Adventures of a Danish Emigrant in Queensland (1871-1880) by Weitemeyer, Thorvald
"Pig, bullock, goose, must have their goblins too, Else ours would have to go without their dinners: If that starvation doctrine were but true, How hard the fate of gormandizing sinners!"
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville
The gormandizing contest ended as it began, with songs and dances; in the latter amusement, however, few were now able to join; afterwards ensued a rude attempt at dramatic representation.
From Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume I. by M'lean, John
