epicure
1Epicure — Épicure Pour les articles homonymes, voir Epicure (homonymie). Épicure (Ἐπίκουρος) Philosophe Grec Antiquité …
2ÉPICURE — Quand Épicure fonda son école à Athènes, en 306 avant J. C., la vie culturelle de la Grèce était dominée par les deux grandes écoles qui avaient recueilli l’héritage de Platon et d’Aristote: l’Académie et le Lycée. Épicure eut clairement… …
3epicure — epicure, gourmet, gourmand, glutton, bon vivant, gastronome mean one who takes pleasure in eating and drinking. An epicure is one who is choice and fastidious while at the same time voluptuous in enjoyment of food and drink; the term is also… …
4epicure — [ep′i kyoor΄] n. [< L Epicurus < Gr Epikouros: see EPICURUS] 1. a person who enjoys and has a discriminating taste for fine foods and drinks 2. Archaic a person who is especially fond of luxury and sensuous pleasure SYN. an EPICURE is a… …
5Epicure — 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… …
6Epicure — ÉPICURE: Le mépriser …
7epicure — late 14c., follower of Epicurus, from L. Epicurus, from Gk. Epicouros (341 270 B.C.E.), Athenian philosopher who taught that pleasure is the highest good and identified virtue as the greatest pleasure; the first lesson recalled, the second… …
8epicure — [n] gourmet bon vivant, connoisseur, Epicurean, gastronome, gastronomer, gastronomist, gourmand; concepts 348,423 …
9epicure — ► NOUN ▪ a person who takes particular pleasure in fine food and drink. ORIGIN from Epicurus (see EPICUREAN(Cf. ↑Epicureanism)) …
10Épicure — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Épicure (homonymie). Épicure (Ἐπίκουρος) Philosophe Grec Antiquité …
