A sensualist; one addicted to good eating and drinking. So called from Epicuʹros (q.v.).
Sir Epicure. A worldly sensualist in The Alchemist, by Ben Jonson. His surname is “Mammon.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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