Gluttony

[2] The Gesenius Entry[3] (lower left word) has indications of "squandering" and "profligacy" (waste).

Seeking to stimulate the palate with overly or elaborately prepared food (e.g. with luxurious sauces and seasonings).

[16] In his Summa Theologica (Part 2-2, Question 148, Article 4), St. Thomas Aquinas reiterated the list of five ways to commit gluttony:[17] St. Aquinas concludes that "gluttony denotes inordinate concupiscence in eating"; the first three ways are related to the food itself, while the last two related to the manner of eating.

[19]: A6 St. Alphonsus Liguori wrote the following when explaining gluttony: "Pope Innocent XI has condemned the proposition which asserts that it is not a sin to eat or to drink from the sole motive of satisfying the palate.

But it is a defect to eat, like beasts, through the sole motive of sensual gratification, and without any reasonable object.

Hence, the most delicious meats may be eaten without sin, if the motive be good and worthy of a rational creature; and, in taking the coarsest food through attachment to pleasure, there may be a fault.

Callimachus the famous Greek poet states, "All that I have given to my stomach has disappeared, and I have retained all the fodder that I gave to my spirit.

[22] A quotation from Rhetorica ad Herennium IV.28 : "Esse oportet ut vivas; non vivere ut edas"[23] ("It is necessary to eat in order to live, not to live in order to eat")[24] is credited by the Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs to Cicero.