Epicure

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Epicure \Ep"i*cure\, n. [L. Epicurus, Gr. ?, a famous Greek
     philosopher, who has been regarded, but erroneously, as
     teaching a doctrine of refined voluptuousness.]
     1. A follower of Epicurus; an Epicurean. [Obs.] --Bacon.
        [1913 Webster]
  


     2. One devoted to dainty or luxurious sensual enjoyments,
        esp. to the luxuries of the table.
  
     Syn: Voluptuary; sensualist.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  epicure
       n : a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially
           good food and drink) [syn: {gourmet}, {gastronome}, {bon
           vivant}, {epicurean}, {foodie}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  72 Moby Thesaurus words for "epicure":
     Brillat-Savarin, Cyrenaic, Heliogabalus, Lucullus, Sardanapalus,
     aesthete, amateur, arbiter, arbiter elegantiarum, arbiter of taste,
     authority, board-and-roomer, boarder, bon vivant, cannibal,
     carnivore, carpet knight, cognoscente, collector, connaisseur,
     connoisseur, connoisseur of food, consumer, critic, dilettante,
     diner, diner-out, eater, eater-out, epicurean, expert, feeder,
     flesh-eater, fruitarian, gastronome, gastronomer, gastronomist,
     glutton, good judge, gourmand, gourmet, grain-eater, graminivore,
     granivore, hedonist, herbivore, high liver, hungry mouth, judge,
     lactovegetarian, luncher, man-eater, maven, meat-eater, mouth,
     omnivore, omophagist, pantophagist, phytophage, picnicker,
     plant-eater, pleasure-seeker, predacean, refined palate,
     sensualist, sensuist, swine, sybarite, trencherman, vegetarian,
     virtuoso, voluptuary
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  EPICURE, n.  An opponent of Epicurus, an abstemious philosopher who,
  holding that pleasure should be the chief aim of man, wasted no time
  in gratification from the senses.