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A follower of Epicurus; an Epicurean. [Obs.] Bacon.

Pertaining to Epicurus, or following his philosophy. "The sect Epicurean." Milton.

Attachment to the doctrines of Epicurus; the principles or belief of Epicurus.

Luxuriously. Nash.

Epicurean. [Obs.]

nt; to reduce to the state of a lower animal; to sensualize. The unconscious irony of the Epicurean poet on the animalizing tendency of his own philosophy. Coleridge.

Belonging to Apicius, a notorious Roman epicure; hence applied to whatever is peculiarly refined or dainty and expensive in cookery. H. Rogers.

by Democritus, and afterward improved by Epicurus, and hence is sometimes denominated the Epicurean philosophy. -- Atomic theory, or the Doctrine of definite proportions (Chem.), teaches that chemical combinations take place between the supposed ultimate particles or atoms of bodies, in some simple ratio, as of one to…

One whose great pleasure it is to gratify his appetite; a glutton; an epicure.

Aristippus, a disciple of Socrates. Their doctrines were nearly the same as those of the Epicureans.

r difficulties, to encounter strong evidence of a truth. Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoics, encountered him. Acts xvii. 18. I am most fortunate thus accidentally to encounter you. Shak.

Epicurean habits of living; luxury.

To feed or indulge like an epicure. Fuller.

sm. A man of the fifteenth century, inheriting its strange web of belief and unbelief, of epicurean levity and fetichistic dread. G. Eliot.

One fond of good living; an epicure. Sir W. Scott.

A connoisseur in eating and drinking; an epicure.

Strong-scented; slightly tainted; as, epicures do not cook game before it is high.

ts are pale brown, with the flanks and under tail coverts white. When fat it is prized by epicures. Called also dunne.

the genus Scarus. One species (S. Cretensis), found in the Mediterranean, is esteemed by epicures, and was highly prized by the ancient Greeks and Romans.

A pie made of truffles, much esteemed by epicures.