sybariticaladj.

/sɪbəˈrɪtɪkəl/

Etymology: < Latin Sybarīticus: see sybaritic adj. and -ical suffix.

Now rare.

= sybaritic adj.

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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

a1617 S. Hieron Aarons Bells (1623) 14 Their Sybaritical feasts and banquets consecrated to Flora.

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. iii. xiii. 160 Those prodigious prodigals, & mad Sybaritical spendthrifts.

1651 H. More Second Lash of Alazanomastix in Enthusiasmus Triumphatus (1656) 214 Clothed with transparent lawns or sybaritical tiffanies.

1878 tr. Erasmus Colloq. I. 112 Ch. If you will have me, I'll make a Sybaritical Appointment... Pe. What Appointment is that? Ch. The Sybarites invited their Guests against the next Year, that they might both have Time to be prepar'd.

1898 L. Stephen Stud. of Biographer II. iv. 145 They..became soured, or mildly..sybaritical.

Derivatives

sybaˈritically adv. voluptuously.

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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > luxury or luxurious living > [adverb] > excessively or effeminately luxurious

sybaritically1846

1846 Blackwood's Mag. 60 84 We battened sybaritically.

1897 Daily News 7 Oct. 6/5 Our quarters here are nothing less than sybaritically luxurious.

† sybaritican adj. Obsolete

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