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epicurize

epicurize verb: to profess or tend towards the doctrines of Epicurus.

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 epicurize

third-person singular presentepicurizes
present participleepicurizing
past participleepicurized
pastepicurized
alternative formepicurise

Origin of epicurize

From epicure + -ize.

Questions about epicurize

What does epicurize mean?
Epicurize means to profess or tend towards the doctrines of Epicurus.
What part of speech is epicurize?
Epicurize is a verb.
What is the past tense of epicurize?
The past tense of epicurize is epicurized.

Words near epicurize in the dictionary

  1. epicurises
  2. epicurish
  3. epicurising
  4. epicurism
  5. epicurisms
  6. epicurize
  7. epicurized
  8. epicurizes
  9. epicurizing
  10. Epicurus
  11. epicurve

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