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regurgitate, v.|rɪˈgɜːdʒɪteɪt|
[ad. med.L. regurgitāre, f. re- re- + late L. gurgitāre (Cassiod.); see gurgitation, and cf. F. régurgiter (16th cent.).
Florio (1611) has ‘Regorgitare, to regorge, regorgitate’.]
1. a. intr. Of fluids, air, or gases: To gush, rush, or pour back (again).
1653H. More Antid. Ath. ii. xii. §1 (Schol.) Nor does it regurgitate into the same Ventricle. 1733tr. Belloste's Hospital Surgeon II. 38 Which afterwards regurgitate in the Veins. 1782A. Monro Compar. Anat. (ed. 3) 60 The bile..must..regurgitate into it. 1839Ure Dict. Arts 1186 The carbonic acid gas..regurgitates into the apartment through every pore in the stove. 1883J. W. Clark in Nature 22 Mar. 491 A little common air had regurgitated into the whistle when my grasp was relaxed.
fig.1753Smollett Ct. Fathom II. lxii. 233 Renaldo's grief seemed to regurgitate with redoubled violence. 1837Herschel in Babbage Bridgew. Treat. App. i. 245 These notions had been fermenting and regurgitating in the cavities of my brain.
b. transf. of the containing vessel. rare—1.
1669Boyle Contn. New Exp. ii. (1682) 87 When my 3 Recievers did this day regurgitate with air produced from the Paste, I kindled a perfumed cone.
2. trans. To pour or cast out again from a receptacle, esp. from the stomach.
1753N. Torriano Gangr. Sore Throat 5 The Medicine was regurgitated. 1773T. Percival Ess. II. 142 Liquids..when hastily drunk..were quickly regurgitated. 1816Kirby & Sp. Entomol. xx. (1818) II. 179 When she returns to the hive, she regurgitates it in this form into one of the cells. 1898Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 975 In cases in which very small amounts of blood are regurgitated into the auricle from the left ventricle the consequences are inappreciable.
absol.1657Trapp Comm. Job xx. 15 The Whale that swallowed Jonah found him hard meat, and for his own ease was forced to regurgitate.
transf.a1640Jackson Creed xi. xxxvi. §5 Methinks flesh and blood should regurgitate his former murmurings upon this motion made by Jeremiah. 1690Child Disc. Trade x. 174 [They] remove themselves from thence hither, so long, until the City..regurgitates and sends them back.
†3. To swallow again. Obs. rare—0.
1674Blount Glossogr. (ed. 4), Regurgitate, to swallow again. 1681tr. Willis' Rem. Med. Wks. Vocab., Regurgitate, to swallow up again; or to sup up again what it before had parted with.
Hence reˈgurgitated, reˈgurgitating ppl. adjs.
1792J. Hunter in Phil. Trans. LXXXII. 177 Many birds may be called regurgitating animals, and in them it is for the purpose of feeding their young. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. III. iv. ix, One regurgitating whirlpool of men and women. 1876J. S. Bristowe Th. & Pract. Med. (1878) 395 The entrance..of regurgitated food..into the larynx. |