Epicure
noun ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 A person who takes particular pleasure in fine food and drink.
"If there bee any lasie fellow, any that cannot away with worke, any that would wallow in pleasures, hee is hastie to be priested. And when hee is made one, and has gotten a benefice, he consorts with his neighbour priests, who are altogether given to pleasures; and then both hee, and they, live, not like Christians, but like epicures; drinking, eating, feasting, and revelling, till the cow come home, as the saying is."
- 2 a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink) wordnet
Example
More examples"Epicure used to write: "I do not fear death. When it is death, I am not, when I am, it is not death.""
Etymology
From Epicurus, the name of an Ancient Greek philosopher who advocated such a lifestyle.
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