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Word Meanings - BELLY-GOD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One whose great pleasure it is to gratify his appetite; a glutton; an epicure.

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  • WHOSESOEVER
    The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
  • EPICURE
    1. A follower of Epicurus; an Epicurean. Bacon. 2. One devoted to dainty or luxurious sensual enjoyments, esp. to the luxuries of the table. Syn. -- Voluptuary; sensualist.
  • GREAT-HEARTED
    1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
  • GREAT-GRANDFATHER
    The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
  • GLUTTONY
    Excess in eating; extravagant indulgence of the appetite for food; voracity. Their sumptuous gluttonies, and gorgeous feasts. Milton.
  • GREAT-GRANDSON
    A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.
  • GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
    The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.
  • EPICURELY
    Luxuriously. Nash.
  • GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
    The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.
  • PLEASURER
    A pleasure seeker. Dickens.
  • GREATLY
    1. In a great degree; much. I will greatly multiply thy sorrow. Gen. iii. 16. 2. Nobly; illustriously; magnanimously. By a high fate thou greatly didst expire. Dryden.
  • GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER
    A daughter of one's grandson or granddaughter.
  • GRATIFY
    1. To please; to give pleasure to; to satisfy; to soothe; to indulge; as, to gratify the taste, the appetite, the senses, the desires, the mind, etc. For who would die to gratify a foe Dryden. 2. To requite; to recompense. It remains
  • GLUTTONOUS
    Given to gluttony; eating to excess; indulging the appetite; voracious; as, a gluttonous age. -- Glut"ton*ous*ly, adv. -- Glut"ton*ous*ness, n.
  • PLEASURELESS
    Devoid of pleasure. G. Eliot.
  • GREAT-GRANDCHILD
    The child of one's grandson or granddaughter.
  • GREATNESS
    1. The state, condition, or quality of being great; as, greatness of size, greatness of mind, power, etc. 2. Pride; haughtiness. It is not of pride or greatness that he cometh not aboard your ships. Bacon.
  • EPICUREANISM
    Attachment to the doctrines of Epicurus; the principles or belief of Epicurus.
  • GREAT
    great, AS. gret; akin to OS. & LG. grt, D. groot, OHG. grz, G. gross. 1. Large in space; of much size; big; immense; enormous; expanded; -- opposed to small and little; as, a great house, ship, farm, plain, distance, length. 2. Large in number;
  • PLEASURE
    1. The gratification of the senses or of the mind; agreeable sensations or emotions; the excitement, relish, or happiness produced by the expectation or the enjoyment of something good, delightful, or satisfying; -- opposed to Ant: pain,
  • INGREAT
    To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.

 

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