abligurition

Definition

Prodigal expenditure on food.

Etymology

PIE word *h₂epó Learned borrowing from Late Latin abligurrītiō, abligurītiō (“act of devouring; act of spending in feasting”), from abligurriō, abliguriō (“to lick away; to spend or waste indulgently, squander”) + -tiō (suffix forming abstract nouns from verbs); from ab- (“away; away from; from”) + ligurriō, liguriō (“to lick up; to feast or feed upon; to be dainty or fond of luxuries”).

Example Sentences

• "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."