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abligurition

noun /əˌblɪɡjʊˈɹɪʃən/

  1. Prodigal expenditure on food.

    archaic, rare, uncountable

    Deipnosophy, not abligurition, makes the aristologist.

Where it comes from

Learned borrowing from Late Latin abligurrītiō, abligurītiō (“act of devouring; act of spending in feasting”), from abligurriō, abliguriō (“to lick away; to spend or waste indulgently, squander”) + -tiō (suffix forming abstract nouns from verbs); from ab- (“away; away from; from”) + ligurriō, liguriō (“to lick up; to feast or feed upon; to be dainty or fond of luxuries”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry abligurition (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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