boulimia
- a variation of bulimia.
Example Sentences
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To be sure, she is ready to perish with repletion; she has a boulimia, and hardly has bolted down one state than she calls for two or three more.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
No,—we waited till the morbid strength of our boulimia for their physic had exhausted the well-stored dispensary of their empiricism.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
All history, therefore, however insatiable may be the intellectual boulimia that devours him, can never be a proper object of curiosity to any man.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 by Various
