Normans, misliking the gormandise of Canutus, ordained after their arrival that no table should be covered above once in the day, which.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference

In Scotland likewise they have given themselves (of late years to speak of) unto very ample and large diet, wherein as for some respect nature doth make them equal with us, so otherwise they far exceed us in over much and distemperate gormandise, and so ingross their bodies that divers of them do oft become unapt to any other purpose than to spend their times in large tabling and belly cheer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference

Once a year, at the village club dinner, they gormandise to repletion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Toilers of the Field] Reference

What, you wish to get into my house to gormandise and swill at my expense.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pacha of Many Tales] Reference

After a successful catch all the dwellers in the tent gormandise on the killed animal, and appear to find a special pleasure in making their faces and hands as bloody as possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II] Reference

The Normans, misliking the gormandise of Canutus, ordained after their arrival that no table should be covered above once in the day, which Huntingdon imputeth to their avarice; but in the end, either waxing weary of their own frugality, or suffering the cockle of old custom to overgrow the good corn of their new constitution, they fell to such liberty that in often-feeding they surmounted Canutus surnamed the Hardy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Of the Food and Diet of the English. Chapter VI. [1577, Book III., Chapter 1; 1587, Book II., Chapter 6] Reference