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sybaritical, a. Now rare.|sɪbəˈrɪtɪkəl| [f. L. Sybarīticus: see prec. and -ical.] = prec.
a1617Hieron Aarons Bells (1623) 14 Their Sybaritical feasts and banquets consecrated to Flora. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. iii. xiii, Those prodigious prodigals, & mad Sybaritical spendthrifts. 1651H. More Second Lash in Enthus. Tri., etc. (1656) 214 Clothed with transparent lawns or sybaritical tiffanies. 1725Bailey Erasm. Colloq. (1878) I. 112 Ch. If you will have me, I'll make a Sybaritical Appointment... Pe. What Appointment is that? Ch. The Sybarites invited their Guests against the next Year, that they might both have Time to be prepar'd. 1898L. Stephen Stud. Biogr. II. iv. 145 They..became soured, or mildly..sybaritical. Hence sybaˈritically adv., voluptuously.
1846Blackw. Mag. LX. 84 We battened sybaritically. 1897Daily News 7 Oct. 6/5 Our quarters here are nothing less than sybaritically luxurious. So † sybaritican a.
1623Cockeram, Sybaritican-meale, a rich costly meale. 1671H. M. tr. Erasm. Colloq. 103, I see an Epicurean dinner, that I say not a Sybaritican. |