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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
2. One devoted to dainty or luxurious sensual enjoyments,
esp. to the luxuries of the table.
Syn: Voluptuary; sensualist.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
epicure
n : a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially
good food and drink) [syn: {gourmet}, {gastronome}, {bon
vivant}, {epicurean}]
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
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