esurient

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ɪˈsjʊə.ɹɪ.ənt/|/ɪˈʃʊə.ɹi.ənt/|/iː-/|/ɛ-/|/ə-/    美 /ɪˈsʊ.ɹi.ənt/|/ə-/|/-ˈzʊ-/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
形容词 adj.
  1. Very greedy or hungry; ravenous; (figuratively) avid, eager. formal,humorous,often
    — 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.

词形变化

more esurient comparative most esurient superlative esurients plural

词源

词源 1
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).
词源 2
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).
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