gluttonous, a.
(ˈglʌtənəs)
Forms: 4 glotounius, -onous, -enous, 5 glotenose, -ynous, glouttonnous, 6 glottonous, (7 glutenous, -inous,) 6– gluttonous.
[f. glutton n. + -ous; no corresponding form is recorded in OF.]
1. Given to excess in eating; characterized by, or of the nature of, gluttony.
| 1340–70 Alex. & Dind. 790 Ȝe ben glotounius gle glad for to haunte, & han no mesure on molde of mete ne of drynke. c 1374 Chaucer Boeth. i. met. vi. 16 (Camb. MS.) Ne seke thow nat, with a glotonous hond to stryne and presse the stalkes of the vyne in the ferst somer sesoun. c 1449 Pecock Repr. i. iii. 13 A man ouȝte be temperat in eting and drinking and not be glotenose. c 1586 C'tess Pembroke Ps. cvi. vi, Gluttonous they flesh in desert crave. 1610 Healey St. Aug. Citie of God xvi. xxxvii. (1620) 576 It is not the kinde of meate but the gluttonous affect that hurts. 1733 Cheyne Eng. Malady ii. vii. §2 (1734) 185 Gluttonous..Animals..have always overgrown Livers. 1802 Bingley Anim. Biog. (1813) I. 210 Although the Wolf is the most gluttonous of quadrupeds,..yet his rapacity does not exceed his cunning. 1848 Lytton Harold ii. i, Though a Norman was not gluttonous, he was epicurean. 1875 Farrar Seekers i. v. 72 After one of his gluttonous suppers. |
| fig. a 1631 Donne Holy Sonn. iii. Poems (1633) 33 Gluttonous death will instantly unjoynt My body, and my soule, and I shall sleepe a space. |
2. transf. Excessively greedy or insatiable
of (or
† after) something. Also
absol.| 1669 Woodhead St. Teresa i. xviii. 112 My intention is no other than to make Soules, as it were, gluttonous, after the obtaining of so high a good. 1754 Richardson Grandison V. xxi. 125 O my dear! you must be gluttonous of grief in your solitary hours. 1829 I. Taylor Enthus. iii. (1867) 61 Extravagance becomes gluttonous of marvels. 1860 Motley Netherl. (1868) I. i. 4 Philip the Prudent, as he grew older and feebler in mind and body seemed to become more gluttonous of work. 1870 Emerson Soc. & Solit., Bks. Wks. (Bohn) III. 87 That scribatiousness which grew to be the habit of the gluttonous readers of his time. |
† 3. Of food: ? Fit for gluttons.
Obs.| 1600 W. Vaughan Dir. Health (1633) 19 Pastery..is rather gluttonous then healthy, not easie to digest. |
Hence
ˈgluttonously adv.| 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xviii. xcix. (1495) 845 A sowe etyth and deuouryth glotenously all maner stynkynge thynges and vnclene. 1484 Caxton Curiall 3 b, And we ete so gredyly and gloutonnously that otherwhyle we caste it up agayn and make vomytes. 1612 Dekker If it be not good, etc. Wks. 1873 III. 282 Thou saist (vile yongman) they haue arguments To proue it lawfull gluttonously to feede. 1666 J. Davies Hist. Caribby Isl. 331 So insatiable an appetite to mans flesh, that they gluttonously eat it raw. 1856 Kane Arct. Expl. I. xxx. 418 The Esquimaux, however gluttonously they may eat [etc.]. |