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LNS

ingurgitō, ingurgitāre, ingurgitāvī, ingurgitātus

ingurges

verb (1^st conjugation)

to pour in
To flood, to fill
To glut or gorge one's self with meat and drink, to gormandize, guzzle
to make one's self drunk, to get drunk
to engage deeply in, be absorbed in, to addict or devote one's self to

Abbreviations

ingurgito, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. in-gurges, to pour in like a flood or whirlpool. Lit.: merum ventri suo, App. M. 4, p. 145, 27: vide ut avariter merum in se ingurgitat faucibus plenis, Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 35: umor ex nivibus non universus ingurgitans (sc. se), diluensque, sed destillans, Plin. 17, 2, 2, § 15.

— To flood, to fill: Rhodanus palude sese ingurgitat, nomine Lemanno, Amm. 15, 11, 16.

— To glut or gorge one's self with meat and drink, to gormandize, guzzle: se caeno (of swine), Lact. 4, 17, 21: crudique postridie se rursus ingurgitant, Cic. Fin. 3, 8, 23: ingenium crebris et ingentibus poculis, Gell. 15, 2, 3.

— Hence, ingurgitari, to make one's self drunk, to get drunk: anus ingurgitata, Petr. 79: temeto ingurgitatus, Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 3.

— Trop., to engage deeply in, be absorbed in any thing, to addict or devote one's self to: se in flagitia, Cic. Pis. 18, 42: se in alicujus copias, id. Phil. 2, 27, 66: qui degustandum ex philosophia censet, non in eam ingurgitandum, Gell. 5, 16, 5 (cf. Enn. Trag. v. 340 Rib. ad loc.).