Meaning

(chiefly archaic, rare) Prodigal expenditure on food..

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.

[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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When Should You Use Abligurition?

Use abligurition when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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