epicurize
verbEtymology From epicure + -ize.
1
To profess or tend towards the doctrines of Epicurus.
- these evil demons therefore did as it were deliciate and Epicurize in them1678, 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
To feed or indulge like an epicure.
- epicurizing on their pain1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC: