ingurgitation

== English == === Etymology === Latin ingurgitatio: compare French ingurgitation. === Noun === ingurgitation (plural ingurgitations) The act of swallowing greedily or immoderately; gulp. 1864, Francis Headlam translation (from Latin) of Francis Bacon, Instauratio Magna (1630), "On the Dignity and Advancement of Learning", Book IV: And it is written of Epicurus, that he procured the same for himself; for after his disease was judged desperate, he drowned his stomach and senses with a large draught and ingurgitation of wine ... 1982, Claude Simon, "Reflections on the Novel," Symposium Address reprinted in The Review of Contemporary Fiction, (September 22, 1999): So much then for my intellectual formation, or, if you prefer, my "cultural baggage," constituted for the most part of lacunas and contained in the kind of colander that is my brain, retaining here and there a few scraps of knowledge, at least consciously, for after all it is possible that the ingurgitation of Kant and Spinoza, as with mathematics, forcibly as it were, and of which I do not have a very clear recollection either, may, without me knowing it, have contributed to shaping it ... That which is so swallowed greedily or immoderately. == French == === Pronunciation === === Noun === ingurgitation f (plural ingurgitations) ingurgitation === Further reading === “ingurgitation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012