EGURGITATE VERB 1. to vomit forth ...1656 rare 2. to utter phrases ...1709 rare, humorous usage ETYMOLOGY from Latin ēgurgitāt- participial stem of ēgurgitāre, from ē (out) + gurgit-em (whirlpool, gulf) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1656 - Egurgitate (egurgito) to draw out, to empty, to disgorge From: Glossographia; Or, A Dictionary Interpreting all Such Hard Words, Whether Hebrew, Greek,Latin, Italian, Spanish, French, Teutonick, Belgick, British or Saxon, as are now used in our refined English Tongue - Thomas Blount EXAMPLE "...render'd Thee luxuriously Verbose, from whose Scaturiginous Inventive Faculty, such a Multiplicity of Horisonant Phrases arise, which, with so much Facility you Egurgitate, clothing..." From: The British Apollo 1st Edition, 1708 - 1711
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