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Epicurism   Listen
noun
Epicurism  n.  
1.
The doctrines of Epicurus.
2.
Epicurean habits of living; luxury.





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"Epicurism" Quotes from Famous Books



... hope," said Dashall, "that they will not at any future period be reduced to the lamentable necessity of restraining the progress of epicurism, as in the year 1543, when the Lord Mayor and Common Council enacted a sumptuary law to prevent luxurious eating; by which it was ordered, that the Mayor should confine himself to seven, Aldermen and Sheriffs to six, and the Sword-bearer ...
— Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. • Pierce Egan
... table without restraint, and pulling everything about as she chose, were what Fanny herself was not yet enough inured to for her often to make a tolerable meal. She was nice only from natural delicacy, but he had been brought up in a school of luxury and epicurism. ...
— Persuasion • Jane Austen
... she can neither abdicate nor dispossess herself." Thus Rome had the facts and the law on her side. Her pretensions were justified by universal custom and the law of nations. Her institutions were based upon idolatry in religion, slavery in the State, and epicurism in private life; to touch those was to shake society to its foundations, and, to use our modern expression, to open the abyss of revolutions. So the idea occurred to no one; and yet humanity was dying in blood ...
— What is Property? - An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government • P. J. Proudhon


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