overgorge

English

Etymology

Verb

overgorge (third-person singular simple present overgorges, present participle overgorging, simple past and past participle overgorged)

To gorge to excess.
- 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
  ambitious Sylla, overgorged
  With gobbets of thy mother's bleeding heart

References

“overgorge”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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