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1. Pertaining to Epicurus, or following his philosophy. "The sect Epicurean." Milton. 2. Given to luxury; adapted to luxurious tastes; luxurious; pertaining to good eating. Courses of the most refined and epicurean dishes. Prescott. Epicurean

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1. Pertaining to Epicurus, or following his philosophy. "The sect Epicurean." Milton. 2. Given to luxury; adapted to luxurious tastes; luxurious; pertaining to good eating. Courses of the most refined and epicurean dishes. Prescott. Epicurean philosophy. See Atomic philosophy, under Atomic.

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  • CHOICE
    1. Worthly of being chosen or preferred; select; superior; precious; valuable. My choicest hours of life are lost. Swift. 2. Preserving or using with care, as valuable; frugal; -- used with of; as, to be choice of time, or of money. 3. Selected
  • TASTY
    1. Having a good taste; -- applied to persons; as, a tasty woman. See Taste, n., 5. 2. Being in conformity to the principles of good taste; elegant; as, tasty furniture; a tasty dress.
  • CHOICELY
    1. With care in choosing; with nice regard to preference. "A band of men collected choicely, from each county some." Shak. 2. In a preferable or excellent manner; excellently; eminently. "Choicely good." Walton.
  • EPICUREAN
    1. A follower or Epicurus. 2. One given to epicurean indulgence.
  • LUXURIOUS
    Of or pertaining to luxury; ministering to luxury; supplied with the conditions of luxury; as, a luxurious life; a luxurious table; luxurious ease. " Luxurious cities. " Milton. -- Lux*u"ri*ous*ly, adv. -- Lux*u"ri*ous*ness, n.
  • DAINTY
    1. Rare; valuable; costly. Full many a deynté horse had he in stable. Chaucer. Note: Hence the proverb "dainty maketh dearth," i. e., rarity makes a thing dear or precious. 2. Delicious to the palate; toothsome. Dainty bits Make rich the ribs.
  • REFINED
    Freed from impurities or alloy; purifed; polished; cultured; delicate; as; refined gold; refined language; refined sentiments. Refined wits who honored poesy with their pens. Peacham. -- Re*fin"ed*ly (r, adv. -- Re*fin"ed*ness, n.
  • CHOICEFUL
    Making choices; fickle. His choiceful sense with every change doth fit. Spenser.
  • EXQUISITE
    1. Carefully selected or sought out; hence, of distinguishing and surpassing quality; exceedingly nice; delightfully excellent; giving rare satisfaction; as, exquisite workmanship. Plate of rare device, and jewels Of reach and exquisite form. Shak.
  • REFINEMENT
    1. The act of refining, or the state of being refined; as, the refinement or metals; refinement of ideas. The more bodies are of kin to spirit in subtilty and refinement, the more diffusive are they. Norris. From the civil war to this time, I doubt
  • REFIND
    To find again; to get or experience again. Sandys.
  • REFINER
    One who, or that which, refines.
  • EXQUISITELY
    In an exquisite manner or degree; as, lace exquisitely wrought. To a sensitive observer there was something exquisitely painful in it. Hawthorne.
  • EPICUREANISM
    Attachment to the doctrines of Epicurus; the principles or belief of Epicurus.
  • EXQUISITENESS
    Quality of being exquisite.
  • REFINE
    1. To become pure; to be cleared of feculent matter. So the pure, limpid stream, when foul with stains, Works itself clear, and, as it runs, refines. Addison. 2. To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence. Chaucer refined on Boccace,
  • REFINERY
    1. The building and apparatus for refining or purifying, esp. metals and sugar. 2. A furnace in which cast iron is refined by the action of a blast on the molten metal.
  • CHOICENESS
    The quality of being of particular value or worth; nicely; excellence.
  • PREFINE
    To limit beforehand. Knolles.
  • PREFINITE
    Prearranged. " Set and prefinite time." Holland.
  • OCTASTYLE
    See OCTOSTYLE
  • PENTASTYLE
    Having five columns in front; -- said of a temple or portico in classical architecture. -- n.
  • HOBSON'S CHOICE
    A choice without an alternative; the thing offered or nothing. Note: It is said to have had its origin in the name of one Hobson, at Cambridge, England, who let horses, and required every customer to take in his turn the horse which stood next the
  • ILLUXURIOUS
    Not luxurious. Orrery.
  • OVEREXQUISITE
    Too exquisite; too exact or nice; too careful.
  • OVERREFINE
    To refine too much.

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