epicurize

English

Alternative forms

• epicurise

Etymology

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.
   • 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC:

     epicurizing on their pain

References

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