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Definition of Ingurgitating
1. ingurgitate [v] - See also: ingurgitate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ingurgitating
Literary usage of Ingurgitating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Royal Truths by Henry Ward Beecher (1869)
"... flaring out toward this world, and growing small toward the other, and
ingurgitating, ingurgitating, all his life long. Men say that he is prosperous; ..."
2. The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare, Edwin Booth, Henry L Hinton (1867)
"... not only that it was "a very dangerous Hat and fatal,'' but that it possessed
a " voracious and ingurgitating property; so that, should a ship of the ..."
3. English Local Government from the Revolution to the Municipal Corporations by Sidney Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1908)
"They have a groat a house from each inhabitant, besides their fines, with which
they feast their ingurgitating stomachs with luxurious excesses. ..."
4. The London Pleasure Gardens of the Eighteenth Century by Arthur Edgar Wroth, ., Warwick William Wroth (1896)
"In this year (1699) there was an exhibition of an " ingurgitating monster," a
man, who, for SADLER'S WELLS ANGLERS. 1796. a stake of five guineas, ..."
5. The Fleet: Its River, Prison, and Marriages by John Ashton (1889)
"When a chair was set, and he had placed himself in sight of the whole assembly,
a live Cock was given into the ravenous paws of this ingurgitating monster. ..."
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