E. Cobham Brewer 18101897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Manduce (2 syl.).
The idol Gluttony, venerated by the Gastrolaters, people whose god was their belly.
It is a monstrous figure, fit to frighten little children; its eyes are bigger than its belly, and its head larger than all the rest of its body, having a goodly pair of wide jaws, lined with two rows of teeth, which, by the magic of a small twine are made to clash, chatter, and rattle against the other, as the jaws of St. Clements dragon (called graulli) on St. Marks procession at Metz.Rabelais: Pantagruel, iv. 59.