Definition of "glutton"

A glutton monastery in former ages makes a hungry ministry in our days.The spelling has been modernized.

1655, Thomas Fuller, edited by James Nichols, The Church History of Britain, […], new edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [James Nichols] for Thomas Tegg and Son, […], published 1837

So, so, thou common dog, didst thou disgorgeThy glutton bosom of the royal Richard?

1597, William Shakespeare, 2 Henry IV i 3

"Gluttons in murder, wanton to destroy."

1705, George Granville, The British Enchanters

"A good few indeed, my man," replied the captain. "Yes, you may make away with a deal of money and be neither drunkard nor glutton."

1878, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native

Hope is a subtle glutton; / He feeds upon the fair;

a. 1887 (date written), Emily Dickinson, “Hope is a subtle glutton”, in M[abel] L[oomis] Todd, editors, Poems, Third Series, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, published 1896, page 15

[A] civil establishment […] is the animal called a glutton, which falling from a tree (in which it generally conceals itself) upon some noble animal, immediately begins to tear it, and suck its blood […] .

1791, Joseph Priestley, Letters to Burke, section VII

Glutton'd at last, return at home to pine.

a. 1657, Richard Lovelace, On Sanazar's Hundred Duckets by hte Clarissimi of Venice

In some cities their [local branches] have become gluttoned with success, and in their misguided overzealous ambition they are 'killing the goose that lays the golden egg.'

1915, Journeyman Barber, Hairdresser, Cosmetologist and Proprietor

Whereon in Egypt gluttoning they fed.

1604, Michael Drayton, Moses in a Map of his Miracles

Thus do I pine and surfeit day by day, / Or gluttoning on all, or all away.

1598, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 75