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ingurgitate, v.|ɪnˈgɜːdʒɪteɪt|
Pa. pple. in 6 ingurgitate.
[f. ppl. stem of L. ingurgitāre to pour in (like a flood), to glut or gorge oneself, f. in- (in-2) + gurges, gurgit-em a whirlpool, gulf. Cf. F. ingurgiter (Cotgr. 1611).]
1. trans. To swallow greedily or immoderately (food, or, in later use esp., drink). Also fig.
1570Levins Manip. 41/47 Ingurgitate, ingurgitare. 1574Newton Health Mag. 16 Meate excessively ingurgitate and eaten..commonly engendreth and breedeth cruditie. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 205 To ingurgitate & consume more of Gods creatures. 1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 220 When he had ingurgitated much wine. a1711Ken Edmund Poet. Wks. 1721 II. 83 Those Sots..Flask after Flask ingurgitate, till drown'd In their own Spews they wallow on the Ground. 1822T. Taylor Apuleius, Philos. Plato ii. 358 To ingurgitate pleasures of every kind. 1855F. Hall in Nation (N.Y.) XL. 257/1 He does not hesitate to ingurgitate, at one brave gulp, all the evil..that is found in the original German.
b. absol. To eat or drink to excess; to gormandize, guzzle.
1598T. Bastard Chrestoleros (1880) 10 Phisition Mirus talkes of saliuation..Who doth ingurgitate, who tussicate. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. ii. ii. i. ii, To eat and ingurgitate beyond all measure, as many doe. 1841Jeffrey Let. in Cockburn Life II. clvii, When awake and not ingurgitating, on the whole very good company.
c. To gorge, to cram with food or drink.
1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. i. (1877) 104 Wee must not swill and ingurgitate our stomacks so ful. 1615T. Adams Spir. Navigator 15 Cormorants whose gorges have been long ingurgitated with the world.
2. trans. To swallow up as a gulf or whirlpool; to engulf. lit. and fig.
a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. ii. ii. §5 (1622) 206 Let him ingurgitate himselfe neuer so deepe into it. 1644Vicars God in Mount 204 The swelling and swallowing Waves which thought to have ingurgitated and supt us all up. 1787tr. Klopstock's Messiah iii. 93 Thus whirlpools..ingurgitate into their gulphs profound the incautious mariner. 1849E. B. Eastwick Dry Leaves 121 Bankers who pay no interest it is true, but do not absorb and ingurgitate your principal.
†b. intr. for refl. Of a river: To discharge itself into the sea. (Cf. engulf 1 b.) Obs.
1632Vicars tr. Virgil's æneid 5 Where swift Simois did ingurgitate.
Hence inˈgurgitated, inˈgurgitating ppl. adjs.
1620Venner Via Recta vi. 102 Mixt sauces.., which of ingurgitating belly-gods are greatly esteemed. 1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iv. xxv. 284 Sancho had in a short time choak'd himselfe with the ingurgitated reliques and orts of the Canons provision. 1830Beauties Thanet II. 59 Their ingurgitating property is so powerful, that in a few days even the largest vessel driven upon them would be swallowed up. 1851Hawthorne Ho. Sev. Gables xx. (1883) 366 A momentary eddy,—very small, as compared with the apparent magnitude of the ingurgitated object. |
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