Definition of "ingurgitation" [in•gur•gi•ta•tion]

• The act of swallowing greedily or immoderately; that which is so swallowed. (noun)

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• "So it is written of Epicurus, that after his disease was judged desperate, he drowned his stomach and senses with a large draught and ingurgitation of wine; whereupon the epigram was made,"
• "As Sir Thomas Elyot wrote in the 16th century (using, you will observe, the very word of Mr Hamerton’s energetic but fed-up tradesman), ‘Inconveniences always doe happen by ingurgitation and excessive feedings."
• "As Sir Thomas Elyot wrote in the 16th century (using, you will observe, the very word of Mr Hamerton's energetic but fed-up tradesman), 'Inconveniences always doe happen by ingurgitation and excessive feedings.'"