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单词 esurient
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esurientadj.n.

/iːˈsjʊərɪənt/
Etymology: < Latin ēsurient-em, present participle of ēsurīre to be hungry, desiderative verb < ēs- participial stem of edĕre to eat.
A. adj.
1.
a. Hungry: in early use chiefly figurative. Now humorously pedantic in lit. sense, or (with reminiscence of Juvenal's Græculus esuriens) in the sense ‘impecunious and greedy’.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > strong or eager desire > [adjective] > craving
thirstyc888
ofthirstOE
hungryc1200
athirsta1387
hydropicc1400
anhungered?1556
sharp-set1580
hydropical1656
esurienta1672
craving1688
thirstful1865
a1672 A. Wood Life (1848) 107 He [A. Wood] might advance his esurient genie in antiquities, especially in those of the said universitie.
1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 867 He was as esurient after fame as Tom Coryate.
1790 J. Williams Shrove Tuesday (1794) 32 Esurient Ruin shall be taught to spare Those altars congregated Virtues rear.
1833 C. Lamb Pop. Fallacies iii, in Last Ess. Elia 230 To sit esurient at his own table, and commend the flavour of his venison upon the absurd strength of his never touching it himself.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. iv. iv. 193 He is an esurient, unprovided Advocate; Danton, by name.
1854 C. D. Badham Prose Halieutics 476 Juvenal's picture of an esurient Greek.
1858 Sat. Rev. 6 559/2 The English Cabinet annually avails itself of the delightful facility thus afforded to esurient ichthyophagi.
1881 Spectator 15 Jan. 81 Untrustworthy, esurient, broken attorneys.
b. transferred.
ΚΠ
1710 T. Fuller Pharmacopœia Extemporanea 146 Calcin'd Harts-horn..must needs..leave its Pores empty and esurient.
2. Pertaining to appetite or the love of eating; gastronomic.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > gastronomy > [adjective]
deipnosophistic1661
apician1699
esurient1821
gastronomic1828
gastronomical1842
gastrological1851
aristological1873
fine dining1940
1821 New Monthly Mag. 1 438 Esurient and bibulous reminiscences ooze from its surface.
1852 Blackwood's Mag. 71 749 Let them..extend the esurient knowledge of their race..inculcate educational cookery.
B. n.
A greedy person.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > inordinate or excessive desire > [noun] > inordinate desire of possessions > one who has
yisserc1200
puttocka1500
Mammon1622
grasperc1628
snig1629
suck-egg1685
esurient1691
gripe-all1823
hake1855
1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses (1817) III. 965 An insatiable esurient after riches and what not.

Derivatives

eˈsuriently adv. hungrily.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > hunger > [adverb]
hungerlya1584
starvedly1606
starvingly1662
hungrily1693
yaply1768
esuriently1883
the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > strong or eager desire > [adverb] > craving
hungrily1377
cravingly1621
esuriently1883
hungeringly1884
1883 G. A. MacDonnell Chess Life-pict. 106 I..was waiting esuriently the appearance of the committee in order to commence our refection.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

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esurient
Occurring first in a few direct adoptions from Latin, as parturient (1592), †micturient (1654), esurient (a1672), and hence occasionally added to Latin stems to form adjectives with the meaning ‘desiring, characterized by a desire, (to do something)’, as in †novaturient (1679), nupturient, † vomiturient (1666).
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1878 Eagle (St. John's Coll., Cambr.) X. 81 The vapid concourse of dangling men and nupturient maids.
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