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Definition of Gourmandizes
1. gourmandize [v] - See also: gourmandize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gourmandizes
Literary usage of Gourmandizes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1896)
"The barbarian gourmandizes to-day and fasts tomorrow, and he never has gastric
disorders. We still 'exemplify our hereditary traits by imitating him one day ..."
2. Mind and Its Disorders: A Text-book for Students and Practitioners by William Henry Butter Stoddart (1908)
"... and the patient gourmandizes, not because he is hungry but because he is greedy.
An increased sexual instinct often gets him into trouble with the ..."
3. Living Plants and Their Properties: A Collection of Essays by Joseph Charles Arthur, Daniel Trembly MacDougal (1898)
"... but the ox feeds upon the living grass, the sparrow gourmandizes upon myriads
of young plants in the seed stage, and the caterpillar defoliates trees. ..."
4. A Song of Life by Margaret Warner Morley (1891)
"... who attaches himself, perdu, to the crab's doorway, and gourmandizes on all
the food he can seize as it enters; and we have the cloak anemone, ..."
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