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epicureanized

epicureanized is the simple past and past participle of epicureanize.

Meaning of epicureanize

Verb

epicureanize (third-person singular simple present epicureanizes, present participle epicureanizing, simple past and past participle epicureanized)

  1. To make epicurean; To cause to value and pursue refined pleasures.
    • Along with it came the rapid growth of wealth, and of the arts which minister to wealth, whether by feeding or by pampering it: and these naturally tend to enervate and epicureanize men's minds, to “ incarnate and imbrute" the soul, “till she quite loses The divine property of her first being," to...1848, Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, page 47

Questions about epicureanized

What is epicureanized the simple past and past participle of?
Epicureanized is the simple past and past participle of epicureanize.

Words near epicureanized in the dictionary

  1. epicureanises
  2. epicureanising
  3. epicureanism
  4. Epicureanisms
  5. epicureanize
  6. epicureanized
  7. epicureanizes
  8. epicureanizing
  9. epicureanly
  10. epicureans
  11. epicureous

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