esurient

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esurient

/ɪˈsjʊə.ɹɪ.ənt/ UK
/ɪˈʃʊə.ɹi.ənt/ UK
/iː-/ UK
/ɛ-/ UK
/ə-/ UK
/ɪˈsʊ.ɹi.ənt/ US
/ə-/ US
/-ˈzʊ-/ US

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Borrowed from Latin ēsurient, ēsurientem, from ēsuriēns (“hungering”), present participle of ēsuriō (“to be hungry, to hunger for something”), a desiderative verb from edō (“to eat”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁édti (“to eat”)) + -turiō (suffix indicating a desire for an action).

adjective more esurient · most esurient

formal, humorous, often Very greedy or hungry; ravenous; (figuratively) avid, eager. So that (as I apprehend) theſe Famelick, Eſurient, and Sitient Spirits are not the Ferments product of Concoction in the Ventricle, but only incentives, ordained by nature to render us deſirous of Aliment, to repair the decaying frame of our Body.
Similar: cormorant, edacious, esurient, gluttonous, gutfoundered, hungry as a hog, insatiable, lupine, pantagruelian, rapacious, ravening, ravenous

noun esurients

One who is greedy or hungry. Sure it is that he [Philip Nye] was a moſt dangerous and ſeditious Perſon, a politick Pulpit driver of Independency, an inſatiable eſurient after riches, and what not to raiſe a family and to heap up wealth.

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@misc{esurient_2026,
  title = {esurient},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/esurient},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}