Forms: see the sb. [f. STOMACH sb. Cf. L. stomachārī to be resentful, to be angry with, F. s’estomaquer to take offence.]
† 1. trans. To be offended at, resent. Obs.
1523. Cromwell, in Merriman, Life & Lett. (1902), I. 36. I stomak as a sory Subiect may doo, the high iniuries done by the saide Francoys.
1560. Daus, trans. Sleidane’s Comm., 382. Than began he to stomack the matter, & was right sore offended.
a. 1591. H. Smith, Restit. Nebuchadnezzar, 33. So God doth stomacke sinnes in those that beare his owne person.
1611. B. Jonson, Catiline, III. F 1 b. Publicke report, That giues you out, to stomacke your repulse.
1649. Milton, Eikon., 110. Parlament is call’d, not by the King, but by the Law, to be his Counselers & Dictators, though he stomac it.
1678. Lively Oracles, II. ix. 246. We daily … receive those things with contentment … from an intimate … which if spoken by a stranger or enemy, would be despis’d or stomach’d.
1739. Gray, Lett., Poems (1775), 47. Moreover I think I have reason to stomach your last piece of gravity.
1741. Richardson, Pamela (1824), I. 115. In such a manner as might show I would not disoblige on purpose, though I stomached this matter very heavily too.
1780. Johnson, in Boswell (1904), II. 341. An Englishman would have stomached it, and been sulky.
a. 1825. Forby, Voc. E. Anglia, Stomach, to resent.
† b. with clause or infinitive as obj. Obs.
1587. T. Norton, trans. Calvin’s Inst., IV. vii. (ed. 4), 377, marg. The Bishop of Rome stomoking that the Bishop of Constantinople should come so neere as to bee made by a councell next him in authoritie.
1594. Mirr. Policy (1599), K ij. When as Iulius Cæsar scoring a superior, and Pompey stomacking to haue any equall to himself, did both striue for the principality.
a. 1641. Bp. Mountagu, Acts & Mon. (1642), 289. Alexander … stomacked that Antipater was all in all with his Father.
c. To be offended with (a person).
a. 1548. Hall, Chron., Hen. IV., 30. Jhon duke of Burgogn … stomaked and envied the Duke of Orliance.
1583. Stocker, Civ. Warres Lowe C., IV. 52 b. The Magistrale and all the Citezeins did wonderfully stomacke the Catholickes, in so muche, that [etc.].
1652–62. Heylin, Cosmogr., III. (1676), 272/1. Both Nations hated by the Natives … but of the two the Spaniard looked on by the people as the more a Gentleman; the other stomached and despised for their sordid dealings.
1671. Woodhead, St. Teresa, II. ii. 6. I was very much stomacked by all my Monastery, because I would erect another, more recluse.
† d. intr. To take offence, feel resentment. Obs.
1567. Palfreyman, Baldwin’s Mor. Philos., To Rdr. (1600), A vj b. Not as though I should swell or stomack against any man.
1591. Savile, Tacitus, Hist., II. xxviii. 69. The Auxiliaries mourned the Legions stomacked.
1648. Gage, West Ind., 208. The good Archbishop … corrected some things in it … which we already hear they have stomached at.
1650. S. Clarke, Eccl. Hist. (1654), I. 142. Herodias rageth afresh, stomacketh anew.
a. 1662. Heylin, Laud (1668), 359. The Archbishop had long stomackt at the Insolencies of Matthews.
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), To Stomach or Stomach at, to be angry at, to resent a thing.
1706. J. Sergeant, Acc. Chapter Bp. Chalcedon (1853), 85. The Cardinals … who … stomached at the authority of the chapter.
† 2. trans. To excite the indignation of, to offend, vex. Obs.
1588. A. Munday, Palmerin of Eng., I. xi. (1639), E 1 b. Palmerin was chosen chiefe Defendant, which somewhat did stomack the sonnes of Primaleon.
1652–62. Heylin, Cosmogr., III. (1676), 136/1. These insolent and unsufferable pranks committed so commonly by these masterful slaves so exceedingly stomached Bajazet the second, that [etc.].
1675. Alsop, Anti-Sozzo, 693. But the Apostle has said enough in this Chapter to stomack the Pride and Restifness of humane Wisdom.
3. To turn the stomach of, to nauseate. rare.
1796. Eliza Hamilton, Lett. Hindoo Rajah (1811), II. 298. Some of us were so much stomached, that we did not much like to go.
1866. Howells, Venet. Life, 76. It is not that the restaurants are very dirty—if you wipe your plate and glass carefully before using them, they need not stomach you.
† 4. To inspire with resentment, fury or courage; to incite. Obs.
1541. Paynell, Catiline, xxxix. 56 b. Tell me I pray you, wherto serueth that oration? was it to stomake you ageynst the conspiracy [L. an uti vos infestos conjurationi faceret]?
1545. Bale, Image Both Ch., I. vi. (1550), F j. When he had stomaked theim by the holy ghost, to shote forth his worde without feare.
a. 1548. Hall, Chron., Hen. VII., 7. To encourage, stomacke and entyce many other to be aiders, assisters & partakers of the same conspiracy. Ibid., Hen. VIII., 163 b. which fordele might perchance so stomacke him yt he would agre to no new condicions nor agrementes.
5. To brook, endure, put up with, tolerate.
1677. Sir H. Capell, in Essex Papers (Camden), II. 128. Treas[urer] ill stomachs Ormond’s carrying this businesse.
1814. Lady Burghersh, Lett. (1893), 232. I confess I cannot stomach treating these people de princes.
1814. Scott, Wav., lvii. So that Fergus was compelled to stomach this supposed affront.
1845. G. P. R. James, Arrah Neil, vi. Dry stomached the affront till the time came for his revenge.
1861. Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxf., xlii. In the end he could not stomach such a backsliding.
1862. London Rev., 30 Aug., 190. He cannot stomach ‘a filthy compound of bones and alum.’
1874. Slang Dict., 311. Stomach, to bear with, to be partial to. Mostly used in a negative character,—as, ‘I can’t stomach that.’
1880. L. Tennyson, in 19th Cent., Jan., 67. The first two evils he was obliged to stomach as best he might.
1887. Besant, The World went, iii. The study of the Latin language … he could not stomach.
1894. Baring-Gould, Kitty Alone, III. 49. But that Pepperill’s niece … should have the temerity to refuse his son was a fact he could not stomach.
6. To take into or retain on the stomach, to digest. nonce-use.
1822. Praed, Poems (1866), I. 66. Iron and steel, for an early meal, He stomached with ease.
1854. Syd. Dobell, Balder, i. 3. Vales, mountains, trees, And stones of home,… anon Are stomached by mine hunger.
7. To climb by laying the stomach against.
1884. W. A. Baillie-Grohman, in Century Mag., Dec., 195/1. Now creeping under an uprooted tree…; then ‘stomaching’ a prostrate log three or four feet in height.
