Definition of Gormandised

1. gormandise [v] - See also: gormandise

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gormandised

gorillas
gorillian
gorily
goriness
gorinesses
goring
gorings
goris
gorli oil
gorm
gorma
gormand
gormander
gormanders
gormandise
gormandised (current term)
gormandises
gormandising
gormandism
gormandize
gormandized
gormandizer
gormandizers
gormandizes
gormandizing
gormands
gormanite
gormanites
gormed
gormier

Literary usage of Gormandised

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"He gormandised so shamefully that, during the short time of his reign, he is said to have squandered no less than nine hundred million sesterces, and, ..."

2. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"I remember that once when I was a boy the coloured footman of a friend came to the "missis" with the complaint that the young gentlemen had " gormandised ..."

3. The Popular History of England by Charles Knight (1880)
"James gormandised with Heliogabalus Hay; and when Carr, a raw Scotch lad, had broken his leg in the tilting-yard, the king watched over his recovery, ..."

4. The Reliques of Father Prout by Francis Sylvester Mahony, Horace (1889)
"... had gormandised with vulgar gluttony ; the Emperor Maximinus was a living sepulchre, where whole hecatombs of butchers' meat were daily entombed;' and ..."

5. My Personal Experiences in Equatorial Africa: As Medical Officer of the Emin by Thomas Heazle Parke (1891)
"Last night Jephson and I gormandised on a real aldermanic dinner—of goat, chicken, and beans. We smoked our native tobacco, in order to complete our ..."

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