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epicureanizing

epicureanizing is the present participle and gerund 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 epicureanizing

What is epicureanizing the present participle and gerund of?
Epicureanizing is the present participle and gerund of epicureanize.

Words near epicureanizing in the dictionary

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

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