
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin ingluviosus (gluttonous), from ingluvies (gluttony)
EXAMPLE
“…Wee must haue a good eye and a diligent respect to our health, and we must vse moderate exercises of the bodye. We must not be to ingluvious, in taking our foode and repaste , wee muste not pamper and gourmandise our selues withe excesse of meate and drinke, but so much and such competencie thereof muste be taken, as sufficeth to refreshe the vitall powers and naturall strengthe, and not to empaire, hebetate, and vtterly to extinguish them. …”
From: The Worthye Booke of Old Age othervvyse entituled the elder Cato contayning a learned defence and praise of age, and aged men
By Marcus Tullius Cicero
Translated by Thomas Newton, 1569