| E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898. |
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Appetite: “He who hath no stomach for this fight.” (Shakespeare: Henry V., iv. 3.) | 1 |
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Appetite for honours, etc., or ambition: “Wolsey was a man of an unbounded stomach.” (Henry VIII., iv. 2.) | 2 |
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Appetite or inclination: “Let me praise you while I have the stomach.” (Merchant of Venice, iii. 5.) | 3 |
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Stomach. To swallow, to accept with appetite, to digest. | 4 |
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To stomach an insult. To swallow it and not resent it. | 5 |
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“If you must believe, stomach not all.”—Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra, iii. 4. |
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Stomach, meaning “wrath,” and the verb “to be angry,” is the Latin stom’achus, stomacha’ri. | 6 |
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“Peli’dæ stomachum cedere nescii.” Horace. (“The stomach [wrath] of relentless Achilles.”) |
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“Stomachabatur si quid asperius dixerim.”—Cicero. (“His stomach rose if I spoke sharper than usual.”) |
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The fourth stomach of ruminating animals is called the aboma’sus or aboma’sum (from ab-oma’sum). | 7 |
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