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apolaustic, a. and n.|æpəʊˈlɔːstɪk|
[ad. Gr. ἀπολαυστικ-ός, f. ἀπολαύ-ειν to enjoy.]
A. adj. Concerned with or wholly devoted to seeking enjoyment; self-indulgent.
1871T. Arnold in Wyclif's Wks. III. 346 note, ‘Rehetours’ might mean lazy apolaustic fellows, idlers, supernumeraries. 1880Sat. Rev. No. 1289. 63 The lordly, apolaustic, and haughty undergraduate.
B. collect. n. A suggested synonym for æsthetics; the science of the pleasurable.
1836–7Sir W. Hamilton Metaph. vii. I. 124 Baumgarten..first applied the term æsthetic to the doctrine which we vaguely..denominate the Philosophy of Taste, the Theory of the Fine Arts..The term Apolaustic would have been a more appropriate designation. |