1. to eat greedily or excessively
Usage: archaic; British spelling

Examples

• The guests began to gormandise at the lavish feast.
• He would gormandise whenever fine food was available.
• The wealthy merchant was known to gormandise at every meal.
• She warned against the tendency to gormandise during the holidays.
• The novel described how the characters would gormandise at royal banquets.