Obs. rare. [f. prec. sb.] trans. To indulge as an epicure; in quot. refl.; also, To epicure it = to play the epicure.

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1627–47.  Feltham, Resolves, I. xli. 132. It [the body] would complain of loathing and satiety, and so would the soul if it did ever epicure itself in joy.

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1655.  Fuller, Hist. Camb., ii. § 48. They did Epicure it in daily exceedings.

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