(n.) Attachment to the doctrines of Epicurus; the principles or belief of Epicurus.
Example Sentences:
(1) ‘Someone who’s bright enough to find a job with no heavy lifting,’ said a voice in his head.” “His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools – the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans – and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, ‘You can’t trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there’s nothing you can do about it, so let’s have a drink.
(2) [Editor's note: andouille is a kind of sausage popular in Cajun cooking, and also what a French epicurean sort might idiomatically call you for ordering a dish named the "Slayer".]
(3) Alma has the epicurean Hitchcock on a diet and one senses trouble in paradise.
Epicurism
Definition:
(n.) The doctrines of Epicurus.
(n.) Epicurean habits of living; luxury.
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.