Crossword-Solution: EPICUREAN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Epicurean | a. | Pertaining to Epicurus, or following his philosophy. |
| Epicurean | a. | Given to luxury; adapted to luxurious tastes; luxurious; pertaining to good eating. |
| Epicurean | n. | A follower or Epicurus. |
| Epicurean | n. | One given to epicurean indulgence. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with EPICUREAN (5)
Paphian, Epicurean, Sybaritical; bred in the lap of luxury, nursed in the lap of luxury; indulged, pampered; full-fed, high-fed.
His features might have been called good, had there not lurked under the pent-house of his eye, that sly epicurean twinkle which indicates the cautious voluptuary.
What of the son of the house?” “I am afraid he gets tipsy.” “He, then, has the epicurean temperament! How old is he?” “He is a boy of twenty; a pretty young fellow, but I am afraid he has vulgar tastes.
Though the Sultan "shower'd Favors upon him," Omar's Epicurean Audacity of Thought and Speech caused him to be regarded askance in his own Time and Country.
This philosophy was first broached by Leucippus, was developed by Democritus, and afterward improved by Epicurus, and hence is sometimes denominated the Epicurean philosophy.
Quotes with EPICUREAN (3)
It required all his delicate Epicurean education to prevent his doing something about it; he had to repeat over to himself his favorite notions: that the injustice and unhappiness in the world is a constant; that the theory of progress is a delusion; that the poor, never having known happiness, are insensible to misfortune. Like all the rich he could not bring himself to believe that the poor (look at their houses, look at their clothes) could really suffer. Like all the cult…
Reading is awesome and flexible and fits around chores and earning money and building the future and whatever else I’m doing that day. My attitude towards reading is entirely Epicurean — reading is pleasure and I pursue it purely because I like it.
A nation is born stoic, and dies epicurean. At its cradle (to repeat a thoughtful adage) religion stands, and philosophy accompanies it to the grave. In the beginning of all cultures a strong religious faith conceals and softens the nature of things, and gives men courage to bear pain and hardship patiently; at every step the gods are with them, and will not let them perish, until they do. Even then a firm faith will explain that it was the sins of the people that turned thei…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, New Yorker, NYT.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1956–2023).