apolaustic

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Sometimes he is nearly as rich and "apolaustic" as a successful stock - broker, and much more fashionable.

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  1. Pertaining to taste or enjoyment; agreeable. Perhaps for brevity and distinctness' sake we may call the first its apolaustic and the second its dynamic character. Mind, XII. 63.
  2. The philosophy of taste. Sir W. Hamilton.

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  • Sometimes he is nearly as rich and "apolaustic" as a successful stock - broker, and much more fashionable. —  Lost Leaders
  • The apolaustic Obama family have been traveling the world, though Hawaii is their favorite retreat. —  Latest Articles
  • For your apolaustic posting pleasure ........ today's classroom. —  Latest Articles
  • Big Jimmy & The Twins love Commando friday, they get to be apolaustic all dang day! —  Latest Articles
  • It may be foolish of us to insist upon apolaustic happiness, but that is the kind of happiness that we can ourselves, most of us, best understand, and so we offer it to our ideal. —  The Works of Max Beerbohm
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  1. from Greek ἀπολαυστικός, agreeable, from ἀπολαυστός, enjoyable, from ἀπολαύειν, enjoy, apparently from ἀπό, off, + *λαύειν, a verb not used.
 

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