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单词 ventripotent
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Definition of ventripotent in English:

ventripotent

adjective vɛnˈtrɪpət(ə)nt
rare
  • 1Having a large belly.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • His mind is obviously not of the finest fibre, nor his massive and ventripotent person either.
    • The great man, with his cocked hat, his ventripotent waistcoat and spreading coat-tails, looked absurdly foreshortened and distorted, like a figure in a conjuring-glass.
    • After a little, shaggy, ventripotent Pan will grow jealous, and ravish you away from me, as he stole Syrinx from her lover.
    • We see the insect, which was clear−sighted, become blind; it loses its feet, to recover them later; its slender body becomes ventripotent.
    • A battalion of solid metaphysicians, reinforced by a tribe of tittering harridans and three companies of ventripotent buffoons, venture a daring sally.
    1. 1.1 Having a large appetite; gluttonous.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He was a ventripotent Apicius, a real epicure; one who boasted that he never wasted his appetite on a joint.
      • Never was seen such voracity since the days of the ventripotent Heliogabalus.
      • He was one of the most distinguished beer-drinkers in the Schwaben Corps, of which he had been elected, by acclaim, honorary member, after emptying a "Pope" on the challenge of one of the most ventripotent members.
      • The ventripotent vermin were in the midst of their meal, when "our fat friend" awoke.
      • General Savage, an elderly gourmet, a ventripotent Apicins, an epicurian Heliogabalus, very cynical, and awfully churlish, thought that the pill, despite of its gilding, was too bitter to swallow
      Synonyms
      greedy, gourmandizing, voracious, insatiable, wolfish

Origin

Early 17th century: from French, from medieval Latin ventripotent-, from Latinventer 'belly' + potent- 'being powerful, being able', from the verb posse.

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