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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A person whose life is given over to luxury and sensual pleasures; a sensualist: "an adventurous voluptuary, angling in all streams for variety of pleasures” ( Thomas De Quincey).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Pertaining or contributing to luxury and sensual pleasure; promoting sensual indulgence.
  2. Given to sensual indulgence; voluptuous: as, voluptuary habits.
  3. n. pl. voluptuaries (-riz). A man given up to luxury or the gratification of the appetite and other sensual indulgences; a sensualist.

Wiktionary

  1. n. One whose life is devoted to sensual appetites; a sensualist, a pleasure-seeker.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A voluptuous person; one who makes his physical enjoyment his chief care; one addicted to luxury, and the gratification of sensual appetites.
  2. adj. Voluptuous; luxurious.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses
  2. n. a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses

Etymologies

  1. From a Late Latin variant of Latin voluptarius ("devoted to pleasure"), from voluptas ("pleasure"). (Wiktionary)
  2. French voluptuaire, from Old French, from Late Latin voluptuārius, variant of Latin voluptārius, devoted to pleasure, from voluptās, pleasure; see wel-1 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • utarcher "His countenance bore as little the marks of self-denial, as his habit indicated contempt of worldly splendour. His features might have been called good, had there not lurked under the pent-house of his eye, that sly epicurean twinkle which indicates the cautious voluptuary."

    - Description of the Prior of Jorvaulx Abbey in chapter two of 'Ivanhoe' by Sir Walter Scott Dec 22, 2010

  • bilby "Though depicted as a decadent voluptuary, she remained celibate for more than half of her adult life."
    - Michiko Kakutani, 'Cleopatra Behind Her Magic Mirror', New York Times, 5 June 1990. Sep 5, 2009

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