Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To vomit; spew out.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To vomit.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
vomit .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Ovid (Metam.xv. 513) says, speaking of the monster who attacked Hippolytus, patulo partem maris evomit ore.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 Edward Gibbon 1765
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_Maris æmulus qui statis temporibus suos evomit & resorbet Aquas_; Which at certain times riseth and falleth after the manner of the Sea.
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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Postea lenis, et fractis aquis domitaque violentia, et spatio fessus, tandem ad [Greek: Delta] opidum per omnem Ægyptum vagus et dispersus, septem ingentibus ostiis in mare Ægytium se evomit.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Ovid (Metam.xv. 513) says, speaking of the monster who attacked Hippolytus, patulo partem maris evomit ore.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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"idem ager Agrigentinus eructat limosas scaturigenes, et ut venae fontium sufficiunt rivis subjinistrandis, ita in hac Sicilae parte solo munquam deficiente, Aeterna rejectatione terram terra evomit."
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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