a. Obs. [f. L. epicūrē-us, late L. epicūri-us + -OUS.] = EPICUREAN a.
1553. Bale, Gardiner’s Obed., Pref. A ij. The double-faced epicureous biteshepe of Couentrye and Lichefelde.
1606. Choice, Chance, & C. (1881), 56. Another out of his epicurious humor, made a kind of oration in the praise of a goose pie.
1615. Hieron, Wks., I. 661. That epicureous and desperat speech … ‘Let vs eate and drinke, for to morrow we shall die.’
