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rigdtet/, U.S. /rgrdtet/, /rigrdtet/ [< post-classical Latin regurgitat-, past participial stem (see -ATE suffix3) of regurgitare to overflow (c1212 in a British source) < classical Latin re- RE- prefix + post-classical Latin gurgitare GURGITATE v. Compare Middle French, French régurgiter (1540), Spanish regurgitar (end of the 15th cent.), Italian rigurgitare (a1597; also 
regorgitare). Compare slightly later REGORGE v.]
1. intr.
a. Chiefly Med. To flow back, to reflux; spec. (of blood) to flow backward through a heart valve. Also fig.
1578 J. BANISTER Hist. Man V. f. 80
v, He denieth not when there is great aboundaunce of the same yellow choler, that it accustometh to regurgitate, & belche vp to the Uentricle.
1615 H. CROOKE 
III. xi. 128 It must of necessity follow that this excrementitious humour should regurgitate or returne into the trunke of the Gate-veine.
1661 T. S
ALISBURY tr. O Corsini
Relation Waters Bologna & Ferrara in tr. B. Castelli
Of Mensuration Running Waters II. 108 And if Reno shall be low, Po shall regurgitate and flow up into the Chanel of it.
1733 J. B. tr. A. Belloste
Hosp. Surgeon II. 38 Which afterwards regurgitate in the Veins.
1753 T. SMOLLETT Ferdinand Count Fathom II. lxii. 233 Renaldo's grief seemed to regurgitate with redoubled violence.
1782 A. MONRO Compar. Anat. (ed. 3) 60 The bile..must..regurgitate into it.
1836 J. H
ERSCHEL in C. Babbage
9th Bridgewater Treat. (1837) App. I. 217 These notions had been fermenting and regurgitating in the cavities of my brain.
1839 A. URE Dict. Arts 1186 The carbonic acid gas.regurgitates into the apartment through every pore in the stove.
1883 Nature 22 Mar. 491 A little common air had regurgitated into the whistle when my grasp was relaxed.
1940 Science 12 Jan. 27/1 If the heart is extremely hypodynamic all the blood
does regurgitate into the auricles.
1997 E. B
RAUNWALD Heart Dis. (ed. 5) II. 1051/1 The movement imparted to the anterior leaflet of the mitral valve by the jet of blood regurgitating from the aorta.
b. Of a vessel: to be filled with gas or liquid that has regurgitated. Obs. rare
1.
1682 R. BOYLE Contin. New Exper. Physico-mech. II. 87 When my 3 Receivers did this day regurgitate with Air produced from the Paste, I kindled a perfumed cone.
2. trans.
a. To eject or expel again; spec. to bring (food, liquid, or gas) up from the stomach to the mouth (involuntarily or voluntarily, and typically in small quantities).
1578 J. BANISTER Hist. Man V. f. 84, They giue place vnto the Urine flowyng out of the pores into the bleddar, and whilest the bleddar beyng distended, is willyng to regurgitate the same into the wayes agayne, these gathered together, and stuffing the pores, wholly inhibite the returne of the Urine.
1695 J. P
ECHEY Store-house Physical Pract. lxxiii. 236 Whatsoever is contained in the Intestines, is not protruded to the Belly, but towards the Stomach, and is violently regurgitated to the Mouth.
1731 T. K
NIGHT Vindic. Late Ess. Transmutation of Blood 31 A Part of the Bile is regurgitated by the Pylorus into the Stomach.
1753 N. TORRIANO tr. J. B. L. Chomel
Hist. Diss. Gangrenous Sore Throat 5 The Medicine was regurgitated.
1773 T. PERCIVAL Ess. Med. & Exper. II. 142 Liquids..when hastily drunk..were quickly regurgitated.
1817 W. KIRBY & W. S
PENCE Introd. Entomol. II. xx. 179 When she returns to the hive, she regurgitates it in this form into one of the cells.
1898 T. C. ALLBUTT et al.
Syst. Med. V. 975 In cases in which very small amounts of blood are regurgitated into the auricle from the left ventricle the consequences are inappreciable.
1920 Sat. Westm. Gaz. 20 Nov. 18/1 That the medium is a ‘hysterical ruminant’, or in other words that she has the power of regurgitating at will any substance recently swallowed.
1953 N. TINBERGEN Herring Gull's World xxi. 178 The parent [gull]..regurgitates an enormous lump of half-digested food.
2006 Metro (
Toronto
)
16 Aug. 17 (
caption) A gentoo penguin feeds two recently hatched chicks by regurgitating a snack.
b. fig. and in extended use. In later use often: spec. to repeat (facts, ideas, etc.) indiscriminately or unthinkingly.
a1640 T. JACKSON Comm. Apostles Creed XI. xxxvi. §5 in
Wks. (1844) X, Methinks flesh and blood should regurgitate his former murmurings upon this motion made by Jeremiah.
1690 J. CHILD Disc. Trade x. 174 [They] remove themselves from thence hither, so long until the City..regurgitates and sends them back.
1800 T. MAURICE Indian Antiq. VII. 492 It was to the shores of India that the great current of the treasures in gold and silver.flowed, to be there swallowed up in a vortex that never regurgitated the shining spoil.
1895 Amer. Homeopathist 1 Nov. 347/2 To mentally ingest a few chapters of Farrington or Dunham or Hering to be regurgitated later on under the protecting aegis of professorship.
1922 F. B
OBBIT Curriculum-making Los Angeles vi. 55 Mere power to regurgitate undigested facts in verbal form.
1968 Times 31 Jan. 7 Underground film-makers have known this for years; seeing their work snapped up from the cinematheque library and regurgitated into television commercials.
2003 R. M
ACF
ARLANE Mountains of Mind (2004) i. 15 You might fall between the blue jaws of a crevasse, to be regurgitated years later by the glacier, pulped and rigid.
2006 Time Out N.Y. 10 Aug. 85/4 Underpaid education professionals are required to regurgitate empty information.
3. trans. To swallow again. Obs. rare 0.
1670 T. BLOUNT Glossographia (ed. 3),
Regurgitate, to swallow again.
1681 in S. Pordage tr. T. Willis
Remaining Med. Wks Table,
Regurgitate, to swallow up again; or to sup up again what it before had parted with.
DERIVATIVES
re
gurgitating adj.
1654 W. CHARLETON Physiologia I. v. 39 Upon the inclination of the Tube, and the succeeding repletion of the same by the *regurgitating Mercury, that portion of aer formerly entered be propelled up to the top of the Tube.
1792 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.)
82 177 Many birds may be called regurgitating animals, and in them it is for the purpose of feeding their young.
1837 T. CARLYLE French Revol. II.
IV. ix. 265 One regurgitating whirlpool of men and women.
1953 Landfall June 95 Like some huge regurgitating bird, he hawked twice and started off back to the house.
1996 Lancet 16 Mar. 765/1 The amount of regurgitating blood did not appear haemodynamically significant.
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