Lexicographical Neighbors of Gormandised
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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