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famishment Now rare.|ˈfæmɪʃmənt|
[f. as prec. + -ment.]
1. The state, condition, or process of being famished or starved; an instance of this, hungry appetite. Also † a means of starving.
c1470Harding Chron. xliv. iii, For drede of famyshement He treated with the duke Androgeus. 1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1596) 66/2 Eugenia..was assailed with..famishment in prison. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. i. §29 Hee caused the Earle by famishment to yeelde vp his Fort. 1667Answ. West to North 13 The bane of Traffick, and the famishment of the poor Handicrafts man. 1727–36in Bailey. 1847A. H. Clough Poems & Pr. Rem. (1869) I. 279 The sky..in Ireland looks upon famishment and fever. 1855Singleton Virgil II. 107 He with mad famishment, Three gullets opening snaps up that was thrown.
†b. fig. Obs.
1569Crowley Soph. Dr. Watson i. 206 Not to be pertaker of the mysticall supper at all, is a famishment and death. 1610–11J. Davies Wittes Pilgrimage V ij b, Laugh and bee fatt, sith al you touch is gold, Though that foode your Soules famishment affordes.
†2. = famine n. 1. Obs.
1526Tindale Luke iv. 25 Greate fammisshment was troughoute all the londe. 1557N. T. (Genev.) Mark xiii. 8 Earthquakes..and famishementes and troubles. |