Păm'per, v. t.

v. t. [imp. & p. p. PAMPERED; p. pr. & vb. n. PAMPERING.] [O. Fr. pamprer, to fill, furnish, or cover with vine-leaves; and, hence, to train or nurse into luxuriant growth, from Fr. pampre, a vine-branch, vine with its leaves, from Lat. pampinus, a vine-leaf. Cf. Ger. pampen, to cram, pamper.] To feed to the full; to feed luxuriously; to gratify unduly or inordinately; to glut; as, to pamper the body or the appetite.

We are proud of a body fattening for worms and pampered for corruption and the grave. Dwight.