Epicure
['epɪkjʊə;'epɪkjɔː] or ['ɛpɪkjʊr]
Definition
(noun.) a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink).
Checker: Rupert--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A follower of Epicurus; an Epicurean.
(n.) One devoted to dainty or luxurious sensual enjoyments, esp. to the luxuries of the table.
Checker: McDonald
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Voluptuary, sensualist, Sybarite, free-liver, man of pleasure.
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Definition
n. a follower of Epicurus (341-270 B.C.) a Greek philosopher who taught that pleasure was the chief good: one given to sensual enjoyment: one devoted to the luxuries of the table.—adj. Epicurē′an pertaining to Epicurus: given to luxury.—n. a follower of Epicurus: one given to the luxuries of the table.—n. Epicurē′anism the doctrine of Epicurus: attachment to these doctrines.—v.i. Ep′icurise to play the epicure to feast riot: to profess the philosophy of Epicurus.—n. Ep′icurism the doctrines of Epicurus: luxury: sensual enjoyment.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of sitting at the table with an epicure, denotes that you will enjoy some fine distinction, but you will be surrounded by people of selfish principles. To dream that you an epicure yourself, you will cultivate your mind, body and taste to the highest polish. For a woman to dream of trying to satisfy an epicure, signifies that she will have a distinguished husband, but to her he will be a tyrant.
Editor: William
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. An opponent of Epicurus an abstemious philosopher who holding that pleasure should be the chief aim of man wasted no time in gratification from the senses.
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Examples
- Ogre that he was, he spoke like an epicure. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- As far as social ethics were concerned Eustacia approached the savage state, though in emotion she was all the while an epicure. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- What a cold, callous epicure she was in all things! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Yet, after all, do not epicures hold the simplicity of a well-roasted leg of mutton to be a dish fit for a king. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Recollection of the best ordained banquets will scarcely cheer sick epicures. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Typist: Ollie