All 7 Uses of
epicure
in
Tom Jones, by Henry Fielding
- Many exquisite viands might be rejected by the epicure, if it was a sufficient cause for his contemning of them as common and vulgar, that something was to be found in the most paltry alleys under the same name.†
Book 1 *
- Nay, I will venture to go farther, it is being in some degree epicures: for what could the greatest epicure wish rather than to eat with many mouths instead of one?†
Book 2
- Nay, I will venture to go farther, it is being in some degree epicures: for what could the greatest epicure wish rather than to eat with many mouths instead of one?†
Book 2
- With this, he had likewise that distinguishing taste, which serves to direct men in their choice of the object or food of their several appetites; and this taught him to consider Sophia as a most delicious morsel, indeed to regard her with the same desires which an ortolan inspires into the soul of an epicure.†
Book 7
- every person, for instance, can distinguish between Sir Epicure Mammon and Sir Fopling Flutter;†
Book 10
- for, with regard to this life, no system, I conceive, was ever wiser than that of the antient Epicureans, who held this wisdom to constitute the chief good;†
Book 15
- nor foolisher than that of their opposites, those modern epicures, who place all felicity in the abundant gratification of every sensual appetite.†
Book 15
Definitions:
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(1)
(epicure) a person who loves fine food and drink
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, epicure can refer to a person devoted to sensual enjoyment in general (including the arts).