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Manduce (2 syl.)

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The idol Gluttony, venerated by the Gastrolʹaters, people whose god was their belly.

“It is a monstrous … figure, fit to frighten little children; its eyes are bigger than its belly, and its head larger than all the rest of its body, … having a goodly pair of wide jaws, lined with two rows of teeth, which, by the magic of a small twine … are made to clash, chatter, and rattle against the other, as the jaws of St. Clement’s dragon (called graulli) on St. Mark’s procession at Metz.”—Rabelais: Pantagruel, iv. 59.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Manchester Poet
Manciple (A)
Mandamus (Latin)
Mandana
Mandarin
Mandeville (Bernard de)
Mandousians
Mandrabul
Mandrake
Mandricardo
Manduce
Manes
Manfred
Manger or Manger le Morceau
Manheim
Mani
Mani, Manes, or Manichæus
Manichæans or Manichees
Manitou
Manlian Orders
Manly