epicurize

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From epicure +‎ -ize.

Verb

epicurize (third-person singular simple present epicurizes, present participle epicurizing, simple past and past participle epicurized)

  1. To profess or tend towards the doctrines of Epicurus.
    • 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:
      these evil demons therefore did as it were deliciate and Epicurize in them
  2. (intransitive) To feed or indulge like an epicure.

References

“epicurize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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