ingurgitation

English edit

Etymology edit

Latin ingurgitatio: compare French ingurgitation.

Noun edit

ingurgitation (plural ingurgitations)

The act of swallowing greedily or immoderately; gulp.
- 1794, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia; or the Laws of Organic Life, Section XVIII:
  Debilitated people, who have been unfortunately accustomed to great ingurgitation of spirituous potation, frequently part with a great quantity of water during the night, but with not more than usual in the day-time.
- 1864, Francis Headlam translation (from Latin) of Francis Bacon, Instauratio Magna (1630), "On the Dignity and Advancement of Learning", Book IV:
  And it is written of Epicurus, that he procured the same for himself; for after his disease was judged desperate, he drowned his stomach and senses with a large draught and ingurgitation of wine ...
- 1935, T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral, Part II:
  I have lain on the floor of the sea and breathed with the breathing of the sea-anemone, swallowed with ingurgitation of the sponge.
- 1956 June, Oskar Seidlin, “Review of Review of Deutscher Geist und angelsächsische Geistesgeschichte by Klaus Dockhorn”, in Modern Language Notes:
  In America, the basically Puritan foundations were undermined by the ingurgitation of German transcendentalism ...
- 1982, Claude Simon, "Reflections on the Novel," Symposium Address reprinted in The Review of Contemporary Fiction, (September 22, 1999):
  So much then for my intellectual formation, or, if you prefer, my "cultural baggage," constituted for the most part of lacunas and contained in the kind of colander that is my brain, retaining here and there a few scraps of knowledge, at least consciously, for after all it is possible that the ingurgitation of Kant and Spinoza, as with mathematics, forcibly as it were, and of which I do not have a very clear recollection either, may, without me knowing it, have contributed to shaping it ...
That which is so swallowed greedily or immoderately.