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epicurized

epicurized is the simple past and past participle 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

Questions about epicurized

What is epicurized the simple past and past participle of?
Epicurized is the simple past and past participle of epicurize.

Words near epicurized in the dictionary

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

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