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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