Meaning of abligurition | Babel Free

Definitions

Prodigal expenditure on food.

archaic, rare, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“So soon as a rogation for a benison by the concionator, transpired, fourchettes, and all implements for the transportation of prog from the table to oral apertures, were movent and sonorific. Such abligurition; such lycanthropic edacity, lurcation, ingurgitation and gulosity; such omnivorousness and pantophagy; and such a mutation and avolation of comestibles, had never fallen under my vision in any antecedent part of my sublunary entity. Truly, anamnestic of [Lord] Byron’s “dura illia messorum!””

“Deipnosophy, not abligurition, makes the aristologist.”

““Your dad says it’s because I remember⟳ things better than other people on account of how I pay⟳ very close⟳ attention and care very much.” / “Why?” / “Because it is important to know⟳ things. For an example, I just recently learned that Roman Emperor Vitellius once ate one thousand oysters in one day, which is a very impressive act of abligurition,” he said, using a word he felt sure Katherine wouldn’t know⟳.”

“[W]hen you squander your money on treats and comfort foods, you are engaging in abligurition (excessive spending on food and drink⟳)”

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