单词 | sybaritic |
释义 | sybariticadj. 1. (With capital initial.) Of or pertaining to Sybaris or its inhabitants. Sybaritic fables (Greek λόγοι Συβαριτικοί, ἱστορίαι Συβαριτικαί), a class of fables or stories which appear to have been concerned only or mainly with human beings and to have involved humorous or ridiculous situations or conversations. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of ancient or medieval Europe > native or inhabitant of states or regions Italy > [adjective] Latinc1400 Latian1598 sybarite1599 Messapian1608 Faliscan1686 Peucetiana1734 sybaritic1786 Iapygian1864 Venetian1866 Atestine1931 the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > Italy > [adjective] > ancient parts > relating to Greek city in Italy sybarite1599 sybaritan1607 sybaritic1786 1786 R. Polwhele in tr. Theocritus Idyllia (1792) II. v. Notes 100 Long after the destruction of the old Sybaritic republic. 1840 G. C. Lewis tr. K. O. Müller Hist. Lit. Anc. Greece I. xi. §15. 145 The Sybaritic fables mentioned by Aristophanes [Wasps]. 1840 G. C. Lewis tr. K. O. Müller Hist. Lit. Anc. Greece I. xi. §15. 145 Doubtless, therefore, the Sicilian poet Epicharmus means, by Sybaritic apophthegms, what others call Sybaritic fables. 1889 J. Jacobs Fables of Æsop I. 203 It is possible that the collections on which we are commenting have a connection..with the ‘Sybaritic Jests’. 2. Characterized by or devoted to excessive luxury; effeminately luxurious. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > luxury or luxurious living > [adjective] > excessively or effeminately luxurious Sardanapalical1555 Cleopatrical1597 sybarite1599 silkena1616 sybariticala1617 sybaritic1619 sybaritican1623 sybaritish1631 sybarital1839 Sardanapalian1863 1619 H. Hutton Follie's Anat. sig. B4v His belly is a Cesterne of receit..A Sabariticke Sea, a depthlesse Gulfe. 1759 Bp. W. Warburton Let. to Hurd 30 Jan. On the 4th, I shall get to town, when I hope you will dine with me on a single dish, to atone to Philosophy for the Sybaritic dinners of Prior-Park. 1835 F. Marryat Olla Podrida III. 252 The Sybaritic sheet of finest texture. 1849 W. M. Thackeray Lett. (1887) 56 It was a Sybaritic repast, in a magnificent apartment, and we were all of us young voluptuaries of fashion. 1876 World No. 117. 12 They do what they please,..and inhale an atmosphere of sybaritic enjoyment. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1619 |
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