abligurition

/əˌblɪɡjʊˈɹɪʃən/

Etymology

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”).

Why this word is great

ABLIGURITION — [Noun] The act of squandering wealth on extravagant feasting and drink. A learned borrowing from Late Latin abligurrītiō ("act of devouring; spending in feasting"), from abligurriō ("to lick away; squander indulgently"), from ab- ("away") + ligurriō ("to lick up; feast upon luxuries"). Unlike "gourmandise" (which revels in gluttonous pleasure) or "profligacy" (which scatters riches heedlessly), abligurition is the deliberate, almost ceremonial annihilation of coin for the sake of excess. It is the Roman patrician gorging on nightingales’ tongues, the merchant prince drowning his guests in rivers of spiced wine, the modern financier ordering a fifth bottle of Pétrus just to watch the ruby liquid spill—each a fleeting defiance of the arithmetic that governs lesser lives.

noun

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 and pantophagy; and such a mutation and avolation of comestibles, had never fallen under my vision in a”