abligurition
Syllables: ab·lig·u·rit·ion/əˌblɪɡjʊˈɹɪʃən/US/əˌblɪɡ(j)ʊˈɹɪʃən/
abligurition noun: prodigal expenditure on food.
Noun
abligurition (uncountable)
- Prodigal expenditure on food.
- So soon as a rogation for a benison by the concionator, transpired, fourchettes, and all implements for the transportation of prog from the table to oral apertures, were movent and sonorific. Such abligurition; such lycanthropic edacity, lurcation, ingurgitation and gulosity; such omnivorousness...1906, J. E. L. Seneker, “Letter V”, in Thomas Stone, editor, Frontier Experience: Or Epistolary Sesquipedalian Lexiphanicism from the Occident, 102nd anniversary edition, published 2008, →ISBN, page...
- Deipnosophy, not abligurition, makes the aristologist.1999, Bonnie Johnson, Wordworks: Exploring Language Play, Golden, Colo.: Fulcrum Resources, →ISBN, page 103
abligurition meaning in Tamil and Bengali
abligurition in Tamil
- உண்டி மிகைச் செலவு
abligurition in Bengali
- খাবারের উপর অযথা অর্থব্যয়
Origin of abligurition
PIE word *h₂epó Learned borrowing from Late Latin abligurrītiō, abligurītiō (“act of devouring; act of spending in feasting”), from abligurriō, abliguriō (“to lick away; to spend or waste indulgently, squander”) + -tiō (suffix forming abstract nouns from verbs); from ab- (“away; away from; from”) + ligurriō, liguriō (“to lick up; to feast or feed upon; to be dainty or fond of luxuries”).
Words that rhyme with abligurition
- partition
- position
- proposition
- transition
- mission
- condition
- commission
- transmission
- addition
- admission
- attrition
- expedition
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- remission
- rendition
- exhibition
- submission
- ignition
- inhibition
- inquisition
- intromission
- magician
- omission
- suspicion
- tradition
- dentition
- edition
- patrician
- politician
- tuition
- acquisition
- circumposition
- decommission
- fission
- nutrition
- perdition
- permission
- phonetician
- prohibition
- superposition
- volition
- academician
- aesthetician
- Apician
- clinician
- coalition
- disquisition
- emission
- fruition
- Galician
- on a mission
- optician
- postposition
- premonition
- recommission
- retransition
- sedition
- superstition
- titian
- admonition
- adposition
Questions about abligurition
- What does abligurition mean?
- Abligurition means prodigal expenditure on food.
- What is abligurition in Tamil?
- Abligurition in Tamil is உண்டி மிகைச் செலவு. See Abligurition meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is abligurition?
- Abligurition is a noun.
- How do you pronounce abligurition?
- Abligurition is pronounced /əˌblɪɡjʊˈɹɪʃən/ (UK).
Words near abligurition in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: abligurition (page history and authors); abligurition (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); abligurition (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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