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Epicureʹan

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Carnal; sensual; pertaining to good eating and drinking. (See Epicuros.)

T. Moore has a prose romance entitled The Epicurean.

“Epicurean cooks


Sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite.”


Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra, ii. 1.

 

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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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Epergne
Ephebi
Ephesian
Ephesian Letters
Ephialtes
Ephialtes
Ephori or Ephors
Epic
Epicure
Epicurean
Epicuros. (Latin form, Epicurus.)
Epi-demic
Epigram
Epilepsy
Epimenides
Epiphany
Episemon
Episode
Epistle
Epi-zootic