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gluttonize, v.|ˈglʌtənaɪz|
[f. as prec. + -ize.]
intr. To feast gluttonously. Const. on, † in. Also † to gluttonize it.
1656–81Blount Glossogr., Gormandize, to ravine, devoure, glut, or gluttonize it. 1659Gentl. Calling i. §5 (1660) 78 For how else can it become possible, that one rank of men should gluttonize, and another starve? 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. v. 810 That conceit that evil demons..were..delighted with the blood and nidours of sacrifices,..which they did, as it were, luxuriate and gluttonize in. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) IV. xxv. 136 The palliating consolation of an Hottentot heart, determined rather to gluttonize on the garbage of other foul feeders than to reform. 1804C. B. Brown tr. Volney's View Soil U.S. 368 When game is plenty..they revel and gluttonize.
b. trans. To feast gluttonously on.
1795Coleridge Lett. (1895) 136 Mine eye gluttonizes the sea.
Hence ˈgluttonizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1827Mirror II. 435/2 Greet this gluttonizing day, And hail the new Lord Mayor. 1887Pall Mall G. 21 Dec. 4/1 The Christmas gluttonizing of the well-to-do. |