v. arch. Forms: α. 5 englot, 6 engloutte, 6– englut. β. 6 inglutte, 7, 9 inglut. [Really two words: (1) ad. OF. englotir (Fr. engloutir):—L. ingluttīre, f. in- (see IN-) + gluttīre to gulp, swallow; (2) f. EN-1 + GLUT v.]
1. trans. To swallow, swallow up; to gulp down.
1491. Caxton, Vitas Patr. (W. de W., 1495), I. li. 108 a/1. Bounden with the boundes of the deuyll, and englotted in his bely.
1534. Ld. Berners, Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546), R viij. Wyll ye … entre agayne into the swalowe of the see, for to engloutte you?
1581. J. Bell, Haddon’s Answ. Osor., 320 b. Them selues engluttyng Partriches, Peacockes, Woodcockes.
1607. Shaks., Timon, II. ii. 175. How many prodigall bits haue Slaues and Pezants This night englutted.
1814. Cary, Dante (Chandos), 169. Inveterate wolf! whose gorge ingluts more prey, Than any beast beside, yet is not fill’d!
1832. L. Hunt, Transl., Wks. 262. Night … hath got thee; To clutch and to englut thee.
2. To glut, satiate. lit. and fig. Also refl.
1571. Ascham, Scholem., I. (Arb.), 50. Being once inglutted with vanitie, he will streight way loth all learning.
1593. Nashe, Christ’s T. (1613), 156–7. Whosoeuer englutteth himselfe, is guilty of his owne death and damnation.
1610. Histrio-mastix, V. 183, F iv. To englut Their bestiall and more brutish appetites.
1619. North’s Gueuara’s Diall Pr., 701/2. Hee had inglutted him selfe with the variety of meates hee did eate at the feast.
1781. H. Downman, trans. Wormius’ Death-Song Ragnar Lodbrach, 14.
| There the wild beast inglutted stood, | |
| For plenteous was the feast of blood. |
1872. Blackie, Lays Highl., 53.
| What time Rebellion sets the state ajar | |
| And Chaos conquers Law, | |
| And on life’s squandered fountains hungry War | |
| Engluts his tiger-maw. |
Hence Englutted ppl. a.
1814. Cary, Dante (Chandos), 85–6. Wretched ventricle, That turns th’ englutted aliment to dross.
