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sybaritic, a.|sɪbəˈrɪtɪk|
Also 7 erron. Sabariticke, and with capital initial.
[ad. L. Sybarīticus, ad. Gr. συβαρῑτικός, f. συβαρῑ́της sybarite.]
1. (With capital initial.) Of or pertaining to Sybaris or its inhabitants.
Sybaritic fables (Gr. λόγοι συβαριτικοί, ἱστορίαι συβαριτικαί), a class of fables or stories which appear to have been concerned only or mainly with human beings and to have involved humorous or ridiculous situations or conversations.
1786Polwhele tr. Theocritus, Idyl. v. (1792) II. Notes 100 Long after the destruction of the old Sybaritic republic. 1840tr. C. O. Müller's Hist. Lit. Greece xi. §15. 145 The Sybaritic fables mentioned by Aristophanes [Wasps]. Ibid., Doubtless, therefore, the Sicilian poet Epicharmus means, by Sybaritic apophthegms, what others call Sybaritic fables. 1889J. Jacobs æsop I. 203 It is possible that the collections on which we are commenting have a connection..with the ‘Sybaritic Jests’.
2. Characterized by or devoted to excessive luxury; effeminately luxurious.
1619H. Hutton Follie's Anat. B iv b, His belly is a Cesterne of receit,..A Sabariticke Sea, a depthlesse Gulfe. 1759Warburton Let. to Hurd 30 Jan., On the 4th, I shall get to town, when I hope you will dine with me on a single dish, to atone to Philosophy for the Sybaritic dinners of Prior-Park. 1835Marryat Olla Podr. III. 252 The Sybaritic sheet of finest texture. 1849Thackeray Lett. (1887) 56 It was a Sybaritic repast, in a magnificent apartment, and we were all of us young voluptuaries of fashion. 1876World V. No. 117. 12 They do what they please,..and inhale an atmosphere of sybaritic enjoyment. |