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epicurise

epicurise is the alternative form of epicurize.

Meaning of epicurize

Verb

epicurize (third-person singular simple present epicurizes, present participle epicurizing, simple past and past participle epicurized)

  1. To profess or tend towards the doctrines of Epicurus.
    • these evil demons therefore did as it were deliciate and Epicurize in them1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […]...
  2. (intransitive) To feed or indulge like an epicure.
    • epicurizing on their pain1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC

Forms of epicurise

third-person singular presentepicurises
present participleepicurising
past participleepicurised
pastepicurised

Questions about epicurise

What is epicurise the alternative form of?
Epicurise is the alternative form of epicurize.

Words near epicurise in the dictionary

  1. epicureanly
  2. epicureans
  3. epicureous
  4. epicures
  5. epicurious
  6. epicurise
  7. epicurised
  8. epicurises
  9. epicurish
  10. epicurising
  11. epicurism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: epicurise (page history and authors); epicurize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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