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▪ I. eating, vbl. n.|ˈiːtɪŋ|
[f. eat v. + -ing1.]
1. The action or habit of taking food.
c1175Lamb. Hom. 19 Þe licome luuað muchele slauðe and muchele etinge and drunkunge. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 37 Sume men ladeð here lif on etinge and on drinkinge alse swin. c1380Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. I. 66 Hous of etynge. Ibid. III. 410 Ffor gostily eetynge of Cristis owne body. a1450Knt. de la Tour 22 Ther was gret noyse betwene the man and hys wiff for etinge of the ele. 1528Paynell Salerne Regim. E., They that haue a putrified feuer, are forbyden eatynge of mylke. 1601Shakes. Jul. C. i. ii. 296. 1651 Hobbes Leviath. iii. xli. 264 By eating at Christ's table, is meant the eating of the Tree of Life. 1755Smollett Quix. (1803) II. 133 The proof of the pudding is in the eating of it. 1884Ruskin in Pall Mall G. 27 Oct. 6/1 You have..kickshaws instead of beef for your eating.
b. An act of taking food; a meal. Also a way or manner of feeding. arch.
1483Cath. Angl. 118 An Etynge, commestio, edilis. 1535Coverdale Ecclus. xxxvii. 29 Be not gredy in euery eatynge. 1608Hieron Wks. I. 691 Taking heed to our selues in our eatings, in our apparrell, in our companie, in our recreations. 1847L. Hunt Men, Wom. & B. I. iv. 77 Marvelling at their eatings, their faces, and at the prodigious jumps they took. 1873Lytton K. Chillingly iii. v. (1878) 188 Epochs are signalised by their eatings.
c. good, etc., eating: said of an article of food.
1763Mrs. Harris in Priv. Lett. 1st Ld. Malmesbury I. 93 Whitebait..are really very good eating. 1781Phil. Trans. LXXI. 169 note, White Ants..are most delicious and delicate eating. 1871Gd. Words 720 A..fish, weighing from half-a-pound to two pounds, and excellent eating.
2. Corrosion; disintegration by a chemical agent.
1691T. H[ale] Acc. New Invent. 1 The extraordinary Eating and Corroding of their Rudder-Irons and Bolts.
3. attrib. and Comb., as eating-apple, eating-parlour, etc. Also eating-house, -room.
c1440Promp. Parv. 143 Etynge appulle tre, esculus. 1483Cath. Angl. 118 An Etynge place, pransorium. 1509Fisher Fun. Serm. Marg. C'tesse Richmonde (1708) 12 The hour of dyner..of the Etynge day was ten of the Cloke, and upon the fastynge day, Eleven. 1535Coverdale Ruth ii. 12 Whan it is eatinge tyme, come hither, and eate of the bred. 1622Massinger, etc. Old Law iii. i, I shall have but six weeks of Lent..& then comes eating-tide. 1630J. Taylor (Water P.) Gt. Eater Kent 12 Nothing comes amisse. Let any come in the shape of fodder or eating-stuffe, it is welcome. 1719De Foe Crusoe (1840) I. xv. 256 The said man-eating occasions. 1823F. Cooper Pioneer vii. (1869) 35/2 The remainder of the party withdrew to an eating parlour. 1845Darwin Voy. Nat. viii. (1873) 172 The elevatory movement, and the eating-back power of the sea. 1853Rock Ch. of Fathers III. ii. 86 They went in procession to the eating-hall.
▸ eating disorder n. any of various psychological disorders characterized by abnormal or disturbed eating habits, esp. anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa.
1961Chicago Daily Tribune 16 Nov. v. 7/3 Dr. Hilde Bruch, clinical professor of psychiatry,..will speak on ‘*Eating Disorders’ at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Forest Hospital. 1987Today's Health Apr.–May 14/2 Eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia aren't easy to treat. 2005A. Smith Accidental 227 It is the kind of thing, along with people's parents breaking up..that makes people at school have eating disorders or cut themselves.
▸ eating disordered adj. affected with an eating disorder; (also) characteristic of a person who has an eating disorder.
1983Washington Post 20 May c5/1 She began seeing eating disorders and..she tracked the problem back to what she sees as ‘*eating-disordered families’. 1996S. Hesse-Biber Am I Thin Enough Yet? (1997) vii. 90 Engaging in eating disordered behavior. 2006Times (Nexis) 24 July (Times2 section) 11 A core issue that I think many people, especially women (eating disordered or not), will relate to.
▪ II. eating, ppl. a.|ˈiːtɪŋ|
[f. eat + -ing2.]
1. That eats; chiefly in comb. with prefixed obj. Formerly also, Greedy, voracious.
1483Cath. Angl. 118 Etynge, edax, edaculus. 1712Addison Spect. No. 446 ⁋6 An eating Parasite, or a vain⁓glorious Soldier. Mod. He has killed a man-eating tiger.
†b. quasi-n. = eater. Obs.
c1340Cursor M. 7125 (Trin.) Of þe etyng þe mete out sprong. 1382Wyclif Nahum iii. 12 His vnripe fijgis..shuln falle in to the mouth of the etynge [1388 etere].
2. That consumes or eats away; gnawing, corroding, fretting: of sores, chemical corrosives, etc.
1621Burton Anat. Mel. ii. iv. iii. (1651) 383 Plaisters to raise blisters, eating medicines of pich, mustard-seed and the like. 1702Rowe Tamerl. iv. i. 1774 Drops of eating Water on the Marble. 1835Browning Paracelsus 130 Festering blotches, eating poisoning blains.
fig.c1602F. Davison Ps. lxxiii. in Farr S.P. (1845) 322 From sweatting toyle, and eating care. 1632Milton L'Allegro 135 And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs. 1702Rowe Ambit. Step-Moth. i. i. 278 That eating canker, Grief. 1876Blackie Songs Relig. & Life 186 From eating care thy heart to free. |