epicurize

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verb

To profess or tend towards the doctrines of Epicurus.

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Meanings

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

present singular third person epicurizes · participle present epicurizing · participle past epicurized · past epicurized · alternative epicurise

  1. To profess or tend towards the doctrines of Epicurus.

    these evil demons therefore did as it were deliciate and Epicurize in them

    1678, 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: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC
  2. intransitiveTo feed or indulge like an epicure.

    epicurizing on their pain

    1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC

Origin

From epicure + -ize.

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APA

epicurize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/epicurize

MLA

“epicurize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/epicurize. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “epicurize,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/epicurize.

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