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Epicureanism|ˌɛpɪkjʊˈriːənɪz(ə)m|
[f. epicurean + -ism.]
1. (With capital initial.) The philosophical system of Epicurus.
a1751Bolingbroke Ess. Hum. Reason (R.), He that should take all his notions of..Epicureanism from Balbus. 1829I. Taylor Enthus. iv. (1867) 78 The modern Stoic (or Antinomian)..borrows the practical part of Epicureanism.
2. Adherence to the principles of Epicurus, or to what are commonly understood as such; hence, devotion to a life of ease, pleasure, and luxury. Also transf.
1847Lewes Hist. Philos. (1867) I. 376 That pensive epicureanism which gives so peculiar a character to his poems. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 250 His dislike of the Puritans..sprang, not from bigotry, but from Epicureanism. 1872W. Minto Eng. Lit. ii. x. 611 This literary epicureanism (or rather gluttony). |