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luxuriate, v.|lʌkˈsjʊərɪeɪt, lʌgˈʒʊərɪeɪt|
[f. L. luxuriāt-, ppl. stem of luxuriāre: see luxuriant.]
1. intr. Of a plant: To grow rank. Now rare. Also fig. † Of a writer: To write at exuberant length; to exceed one's limits. Obs.
1621Burton Anat. Mel. Democr. to Rdr. 10, I could haue more willingly luxuriated, and better satisfied my selfe and others. Ibid. iii. ii. ii. i. 545 The mind is apt to lust, and hote or cold, As corne luxuriates in a better molde. 1658J. Robinson Eudoxa ix. 48 Scorbutical Plants..luxuriate, where the Scurvie is predominant. 1731in Bailey vol. II. 1832 G. Downes Lett. Cont. Countries I. 269 The vineyards hereabout are partly lopped, partly left to luxuriate. 1868Lightfoot Comm. Philipp. (1873) 259 Syria was a soil where such a plant would thrive and luxuriate.
†b. fig. To grow or develop exuberantly into (error, folly, etc.). Obs.
1651N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. ii. xvii. (1739) 90 The Clergy..suffered the minds of young Scholars to luxuriate into Errours of Divinity. 1757Johnson Rambler No. 172 ⁋1 The powers of the mind..more frequently luxuriate into follies, than blossom into goodness. 1808E. Sleath Bristol Heiress V. 121 The seeds of faults..wanted but the soil in which..to luxuriate into vices.
2. To indulge in luxury; to feast, revel, enjoy oneself. Now only with const. in, on.
1621Burton Anat. Mel. Democr. to Rdr. 56 Let them tyrannize, Epicurize, oppresse, luxuriate, and consume themselues. 1648J. Beaumont Psyche xix. xliv, 'Tis Worth enough, if a young Gallant can Look big, Luxuriate, and Write Gentleman. 1832F. Trollope Dom. Manners Amer. i. (1839) 2 A huge crocodile luxuriating in the slime. 1841E. FitzGerald Lett. (1889) I. 71, I had a long letter from Morton the other day—he is still luxuriating at Venice. 1866Mrs. Stowe Lit. Foxes 25 The Christmas-dinner, that solid feast of fat things on which we also luxuriated. 1878R. B. Smith Carthage 278 The troops..must have luxuriated in the easeful quarters which Hannibal's sword had opened for them.
b. In immaterial sense: To take great delight, revel in (something).
c1650tr. Hales' Dissert. de Pace in Phenix (1708) II. 357 Do they not luxuriate in this Wish? 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. 550 They also did luxuriate in their other Many Creature-gods. 1830Herschel Stud. Nat. Phil. 71 The mind..luxuriates in its newly found powers. 1880N. Smyth Old Faiths in new Light iv. (1882) 124 The Oriental mind..luxuriates in dreams.
Hence luxuriˈation, the action or process of luxuriating; exuberant efflorescence.
1839De Quincey Recoll. Lakes Wks. 1862 II. 207 This book never could be very popular, from the..luxuriation of its descriptions. 1854― Autobiog. Sk. Wks. II. 60 The same genial climate there was, the same luxuriation of nature in her early prime. |