Definition of Epicurisms

1. epicurism [n] - See also: epicurism

Lexicographical Neighbors of Epicurisms

epicrises
epicrisis
epicritic
epicritic sensibility
epics
epictetain
epicure
epicurean
epicureanism
epicureanisms
epicureans
epicurely
epicureous
epicures
epicurism
epicurisms (current term)
epicurize
epicurized
epicurizes
epicurizing
epicutaneous
epicutaneously
epicuticle
epicuticles
epicuticular
epicycle
epicycles
epicyclic
epicyclic gear
epicyclic gear train

Literary usage of Epicurisms

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"... Fr. epicurisms; Ital. Epicureismo. The theory of Epicurus : in particular, his ethical doctrine ..."

2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1837)
"iVY, their great plenty Of eli kinds of provision, serving not only their necessity, but courting even their epicurisms; ..."

3. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor by Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1852)
"... and the rich can change all that law into the arts and instruments of pleasure. For the greatest feasts and the greatest epicurisms use to be in fish. ..."

4. History of Friedrich the Second: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"Of hearts made by the Almighty God I will not believe such a thing. Deep-hidden under wretchedest god- forgetting Cants, epicurisms, Dead-Sea ..."

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