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voluptuous, a.|vəˈlʌptjuːəs|
Also 5 voluptuouse, -tuose, Sc. woluptous.
[ad. OF. (also mod.F.) voluptueux, -euse (= Sp. and Pg. voluptuoso, It. voluttuoso), or L. voluptuōsus (Pliny, etc.), f. voluptas pleasure, volupty. Cf. volupteous a.]
1. Of or pertaining to, derived from, resting in, characterized by, gratification of the senses, esp. in a refined or luxurious manner; marked by indulgence in sensual pleasures; luxuriously sensuous:
a. Of desires or appetites.
c1374Chaucer Troylus iv. 1573 Love ne drof yow nought to don this dede, But lust voluptuous, and cowarde drede. c1407Lydg. Reson & Sens. 4714 To soiourne in the Erbere..Oonly ordeyned for delyte And voluptuouse appetyte. 1491Caxton Vitas Patr. (W. de W. 1495) i. i. 5/1 This techith us our sauyour for to kepe us from voluptuous desyres. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 82 b, Abstynence from the carnall voluptuous appetyte of the flesshe. c1540in Prance Addit. Narr. Pop. Plot (1679) 36 The supporters of our voluptuose and Carnal Appetite. 1697South Serm. I. 32 God..has corrected the Boundlessness of his Voluptuous desires, by stinting his strengths, and contracting his Capacities. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 546 [Dancing girls, who] communicate, by a natural contagion, the most voluptuous desires to the beholders.
b. Of pleasure or pleasurable sensations.
c1407Lydg. Reson & Sens. 2022 Venus..goddesse is of al plesaunce, Of lust, and fleshly appetyte, And of voluptuous delyte. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1638) 242 Solyman..lay in great securitie,..passing his time in all voluptuous pleasure. 1663S. Patrick Parab. Pilgr. xiv, Because I believe you are desirous to know, how they receive and take in those voluptuous enjoyments. 1756Burke Subl. & B. i. v, That smooth and voluptuous satisfaction which the assured prospect of pleasure bestows. 1820Shelley Prometh. Unb. i. 426 If thou might'st dwell among the Gods the while Lapped in voluptuous joy? 1869J. Phillips Vesuv. i. 10 The long voluptuous dream came to a startling end. 1888Buck's Handbk. Med. Sci. VI. 397/2 Excessive voluptuous sensations may be the result of peripheral or central causes.
transf.1614Donne Lett. (1651) 173 Out of a voluptuous loathnesse to let that taste go out of my mouth. 1815Shelley Alastor 11 Spring's voluptuous pantings when she breathes Her first sweet kisses, have been dear to me.
c. Of modes of life or conduct.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) VI. 79 The luffe of the cuntre and elegancy voluptuous deceyvide his grevous labors. 1553Brende Q. Curtius x. 209 Hauing in these and suche other like voluptuous vanities consumed a great part of the treasure. a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 82 They subornit him quyitlie to dissobedience,..for by it they thocht they had ane woluptous lyfe. 1582Bible (Genev.) 2nd Alph. Direct., Voluptuous liuing, one of the thornes that choke the worde. 1600Holland Livy xxxvi. ii. 925 The very souldiours were let loose and given over to take voluptuous waies. 1634W. Tirwhyt tr. Balzac's Lett. 211 He as easily surmounteth all his voluptuous irregularities, as he doth his most violent revels. 1685Otway Windsor Castle 124 The Priests who humble Temp'rance should profess, Sought silken Robes and fat voluptuous Ease. a1734North Lives (1826) II. 95 By his voluptuous unthinking course of life he ran in debt. 1809W. Irving Knickerb. (1861) 75 The gallant warrior starts from soft repose, from golden visions, and voluptuous ease. 1817Shelley Constantia iv, The breath of summer night, Which..suspends my soul in its voluptuous flight. 1838Thirlwall Greece xxxviii. V. 29 A man of voluptuous habits, who desired power as an instrument of sensual indulgence.
d. Of fare or feasting.
1544Exhort. in Priv. Prayers (1851) 569 Wholesome abstinence..from all delicious living in voluptuous fare. 1585Lupton Thous. Notable Th. (1675) 77 Cleopatra, the last Queen of Egypt,..did drink one so voluptuous a draught as never any did before. 1638Penkethman Artach. K 3 Excessive consumption and abuse of Wheat and other Victuals in voluptuous Feasts. 1727[Dorrington] Philip Quarll (1816) 14 These provisions being somewhat too voluptuous for an hermit. 1759B. Martin Nat. Hist. I. 78 The most voluptuous Part of Cookery. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 589 That dissolving jelly which is so voluptuous a rarity at European tables.
e. Of places.
1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. i. 39 They tell a thousand other Fopperies of this voluptuous Paradise. 1820Shelley Prometh. Unb. i. 171 Foodless toads Within voluptuous chambers panting crawled. 1832W. Irving Alhambra I. 4 A soft southern region, decked out with all the luxuriant charms of voluptuous Italy. 1839Thirlwall Greece l. VI. 227 The army was permitted to revel for some time in the enjoyments which the most splendid and voluptuous of Eastern cities offered in profusion.
2. Addicted to sensual pleasure or the gratification of the senses; inclined to ease and luxury; fond of elegant or sumptuous living.
c1440Gesta Rom. xviii. 333 (Add. MS.), The voluptuous flessh, that bereth the fire of glotonye and lechery. 1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 20 Voluptuous and daintie louers of this world..doo without any fruite at al heare Gods worde. 1594T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. ii. 121 Our Lord Iesus Christ himselfe, who was neither nice nor voluptuous. 1612T. Taylor Comm. Titus ii. 12 The voluptuous person, is a louer of his pleasure more then of God. 1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 240 The poore are not so voluptuous: they content themselves with drie ryce, herbs, roots. 1670Clarendon Ess. Tracts (1727) 166 The lustful and voluptuous Person, who sacrifices the Strength and Vigour of his Body to the Rage and Temptation of his Blood. a1734North Lives (1826) II. 411 The bey was a merry fellow, and, like other voluptuous Turks, had his buffoons to divert him. 1783Johnson Lett. (1788) II. 298 A friend of mine, who courted a lady of whom he did not know much, was advised to see her eat, and if she was voluptuous at table, to forsake her. 1838Thirlwall Greece II. 172 The voluptuous and unwarlike people were protected by impregnable walls. 1848Lytton Harold i. i, A large building that once had belonged to some voluptuous Roman.
absol.a1680Butler Characters (1908) 266 The voluptuous is very hard to be pleas'd. 1682Burnet Rights Princes v. 160 As if it had been the Rich and Voluptuous, and not the Poor and the Hungry. 1762Charac. in Ann. Reg. 13 His high relish of social enjoyment soon brought him into request with the voluptuous of all ranks. 1802Gentl. Mag. Jan. 3/1 To the..Splenetic—the Voluptuous—the Petulant—and the Proud.
transf.a1822Shelley Calderon iii. 56 And, voluptuous Vine, O thou Who seekest most when least pursuing.
3. Imparting a sense of delicious pleasure; suggestive of sensuous pleasures, esp. of a refined or luxurious kind.
1816Byron Ch. Har. iii. xxi, And when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again. 1820Hazlitt Lect. Dram. Lit. 71 The poet succeeds less in the voluptuous and effeminate descriptions. 1844Lever T. Burke xli. 307 The seigneur..had..mixed in the voluptuous fascinations of the period. 1877Dowden Shaks. Primer vi. 87 The voluptuous moonlit nights are only like a softer day.
b. Suggestive of sensuous pleasure by fulness and beauty of form.
1839Hallam Hist. Lit. (1847) II. 101 We recognise his spirit in the sylvan shades and voluptuous forms of Albano and Domenichino. 1841Macaulay Ess., Hastings (1851) 649 There appeared the voluptuous charms of her to whom the heir of the throne had in secret plighted his faith. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 144 The voluptuous image of a Corinthian courtezan. 1891Farrar Darkn. & Dawn xxvi, She was now twenty-six, but had lost none of her voluptuous loveliness.
transf.1852Tennyson Ode Wellington 208 He shall find the stubborn thistle bursting Into glossy purples, which out⁓redden All voluptuous garden-roses. |