sybaritic

UK /ˌsɪbəˈɹɪtɪk/ US /ˌsɪbəˈɹɪtɪk/
adj 3

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adj

1

Of or having the qualities of a sybarite (“a person devoted to luxury and pleasure”); dedicated to excessive comfort and enjoyment; decadent, hedonistic, self-indulgent.

His belly is a Ceſterne of receit, / A grand Confounder of demulcing Meate. / A Sabariticke Sea, a depthleſſe Gulfe, / A ſenceleſſe Vulture, a corroding VVolfe.

[S]he, for whom attendant maidens had smoothed the Sybaritic sheet of finest texture, […]

adj

1

Of or relating to Sybaris or its inhabitants.

This last passage of Jamblichuns, where he intimates that Cyclon's conspiracy came quickly after the Sybaritic war, being not only corrupted in original, but most miserably handled in the Latin translation; […]

2

Alternative letter-case form of sybaritic (“of or having the qualities of a sybarite (“a person devoted to luxury and pleasure”); dedicated to excessive comfort and enjoyment; decadent, hedonistic, self-indulgent”).

[S]he, for whom attendant maidens had smoothed the Sybaritic sheet of finest texture, […]

But Fate, it appeared, had arranged beforehand to frustrate this Sybaritic dream.

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