(n.) One devoted to dainty or luxurious sensual enjoyments, esp. to the luxuries of the table.
Example Sentences:
(1) The actual figures from the 2000 EPICure study into the survival of extremely premature infants, which the RCOG cites and is the best source of information on this topic, says 33% of babies born at 24 weeks, 19.9% at 23 weeks, and 9.1% at 22 weeks live long enough to be discharged from hospital.
(2) The Epicure study conducts ongoing research into the care of very premature babies – those born before 27 weeks' gestation.
(3) By contrast, North, the priest and “establishment humanitarian” character (tellingly also a “confirmed drunkard”, or by today’s lax standards, a hipster epicure) fails in his pledge to save Kirkland from the lash.
(4) EPICUR is a double-blind trial which was designed to study the efficacy of IMOCURR versus placebo.
(5) But he was back on stage last year, first as a misogynist millionaire in Pauline Macaulay's The Creeper and then, more happily, as Sir Epicure Mammon in The Alchemist at the National.
Voluptuary
Definition:
(n.) A voluptuous person; one who makes his physical enjoyment his chief care; one addicted to luxury, and the gratification of sensual appetites.
(a.) Voluptuous; luxurious.
Example Sentences:
(1) Even voluptuary habits, such as smoking and alcohol intake, could be detrimental in this respect.
(2) Two cases of acute voluptuary poisoning by infusions of dry leaves of stramonium are reported.
(3) Though he may run a tight ship in his businesses, in private Sir Philip is a hedonistic voluptuary , whose permatanned corpulence bears witness to his lifestyle as accurately as Cripps's own skeletal physique did in the 1940s.
(4) The task is complicated by Donne's penchant for flouting literary and social convention as he successively overturns Ovid's influential portrayal of Sappho as an aging voluptuary reclaimed for heterosexuality, the virulent homophobia of Renaissance humanists, and the coy idealizations and transient evocation given to lesbian affectivity by the very few Renaissance writers (including Shakespeare) who touched on the subject at all.