engorge, v.
(ɛnˈgɔːdʒ)
Also 6 ingurge, 6–8 ingorge.
[a. F. engorge-r, f. en in + gorge gorge, throat.]
1. trans. To fill the gorge of; to gorge, feed or fill to excess; chiefly refl. Also (rarely) intr. for refl.
Prob. first used (in Eng.) with ref. to hawks; see gorge.
| 1515 Barclay Egloges ii. (1570) A vj/1 A birde well ingorged kepes well her nest. 1549 Coverdale Erasm. Par. 1 Cor. viii. 4 Engorge and pamper vppe themselues with flesh offered to idolles. 1557 North Diall of Princes 62 a, To ingurge themselves with wyne. 1603 Holland Plutarch's Mor. 1213 You sit downe to meat..but touch not one dish, leaving them afterwards for your servants to engorge themselves therewith. 1667 Milton P.L. ix. 791 Greedily she ingorg'd without restraint. |
| fig. a 1559 Dolman in Mirrour for Magistr. (1568) N 8 b, With pleasures cloyed, engorged with the fyll. 1689 T. Plunket Char. Gd. Commander 16 A Cur engorged with asperity. |
b. transf. in
pass.: To be filled to excess, crammed. Chiefly
Path. of animal tissues or organs: To be congested with blood.
| 1599 Broughton's Lett. i. 6 Virulent letters..ingorged with impudent lies. 1632 Lithgow Trav. x. 499 The Riuers are ingorged with Salmond. 1834 J. Forbes Laennec's Dis. Chest (ed. 4) 213 The surrounding pulmonary substance..was red and engorged. 1869 H. Ussher in Eng. Mech. 3 Dec. 272/2 These vessels are congested, or engorged with blood. |
2. To put (food) into the gorge; to devour greedily. Also
transf. and
fig. to swallow up (as a vortex).
| 1541 Elyot Image Gov. (1556) 72 b, Also ingorgeyng meate upon meate. 1609 Holland Amm. Marcel. xxiii. vi. 237 Neither doth any man, after he hath once satisfied his hunger, engorge superfluous meats. 1798 Month. Mag. VI. 366 Prepare not to ingorge The eternal pyramids. 1850 Neale Med. Hymns 48 Engorg'd in former years, their prey Must Death and Hell restore today. |
| absol. 1739 Grobianus 142 Ingorge once more. Ibid. 179 Largely ingorge, and labour thro' the Treat. |
Hence
enˈgorged ppl. a.,
enˈgorger n.,
enˈgorging vbl. n.| 1562 W. Bullein Def. agst. Sickness, Sicke men, &c. 65 a, This will not helpe to digest your ingorged full stomack. 1598 Florio, Diuoratore, a deuourer, a glutton, an engorger. 1611 Cotgr., Ingorger, A rauener, glutton, gulch, ingorger. Ibid., Engorgement, a glutting, rauening, deuouring, ingorging. |