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/ˌɛpəkjʊrˈiən/ /ˌɛpəkjˈʊriən/ Listen

Epicurean

noun

1.

A person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink). Synonyms: bon vivant, epicure, foodie, gastronome, gourmet.

adjective

1.

Of Epicurus or epicureanism.

2.

Devoted to pleasure. Synonyms: hedonic, hedonistic. "Lives of unending hedonistic delight" , "Epicurean pleasures"

3.

Displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses. Synonyms: luxuriant, luxurious, sybaritic, voluptuary, voluptuous. "Enjoyed a luxurious suite with a crystal chandelier and thick oriental rugs" , "Lucullus spent the remainder of his days in voluptuous magnificence" , "A chinchilla robe of sybaritic lavishness"

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"Epicurean" Quotes from Famous Books

... and the "Golden Legend" is full of the miracles they wrought. Your friend Horace left a less noble posterity, and I see one of his descendants in the person of that tavern poet, who at this moment is serving out wine in cups under the epicurean motto of ...

— The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard • Anatole France

... I have looked at my old school-day companions, the classics," said Elder Staples; "but I remember Horace only as a light, witty, careless epicurean, famous for his lyrics in praise of Falernian wine and ...

— The Complete Works of Whittier - The Standard Library Edition with a linked Index • John Greenleaf Whittier

... The possibilities of large wealth accumulation are limited because the farm must continue to be a small scale industry. It can be improved so as to afford adequate leisure. But farm life does not promise large enjoyment to those of an epicurean turn of mind. The ideal of the farm must be that of producing wealth so that the modest comforts of life may be insured. But the minister must exalt the appreciation of those things that may be obtained without lavish expenditure of money, such as local entertainment ...

— Church Cooperation in Community Life • Paul L. Vogt

... in these beautiful villas on the shores of the Italian lakes, the son of Monnica gave himself up once more to the sweetness of life. "I liked an easy life," he avows in all simplicity. He felt himself to be more Epicurean than ever. He might have chosen Epicureanism altogether, if he had not always kept a fear of what is beyond life. But when he was the guest of Manlius Theodoras, fronting the dim blue mountains of lake Como, ...

— Saint Augustin • Louis Bertrand

... Fevre advised him to let it alone, lest such an operation should be attended with dangerous symptoms in a man of his age. He would often make merry with himself on account of his wen, his great leather cap, and grey hair, which he chose to wear rather than a periwig." St. Evremond was a kind of Epicurean philosopher, and drew his own character in the following terms, in a letter to Count de Grammont. "He was a philosopher equally removed from superstition and impiety; a voluptuary who had no less aversion from debauchery than inclination for pleasure: a man who had never felt ...

— The Memoirs of Count Grammont, Complete • Anthony Hamilton

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