Epicureanize
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To make epicurean; To cause to value and pursue refined pleasures.
"Along with it came the rapid growth of wealth, and of the arts which minister to wealth, whether by feeding or by pampering it: and these naturally tend to enervate and epicureanize men's minds, to “ incarnate and imbrute" the soul, “till she quite loses The divine property of her first being," to lower the dignity of thought, and to relax the severe purity of feeling; so that people learn to account happiness the one legitimate object of all aim, and that too a happiness derived from nothing higher than the temperate harmless indulgence of our pleasurable appetites."
Example
More examples"Along with it came the rapid growth of wealth, and of the arts which minister to wealth, whether by feeding or by pampering it: and these naturally tend to enervate and epicureanize men's minds, to “ incarnate and imbrute" the soul, “till she quite loses The divine property of her first being," to lower the dignity of thought, and to relax the severe purity of feeling; so that people learn to account happiness the one legitimate object of all aim, and that too a happiness derived from nothing higher than the temperate harmless indulgence of our pleasurable appetites."
Etymology
From epicurean + -ize.
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