a. Now rare. [f. L. Sybarīticus: see prec. and -ICAL.] = prec.
a. 1617. Hieron, Aarons Bells (1623), 14. Their Sybaritical feasts and banquets consecrated to Flora, Crispin, Clement and Bacchus.
1621. Burton, Anat. Mel., I. ii. III. xiii. Those prodigious prodigals, & mad Sybaritical spendthrifts.
1651. H. More, Second Lash, in Enthus. Tri., etc. (1656), 214. Clothed with transparent lawns or sybaritical tiffanies.
1725. Bailey, Erasm. Colloq. (1878), 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. Biogr., II. iv. 145. They … became soured, or mildly … sybaritical.
Hence Sybaritically adv., voluptuously.
1846. Blackw. Mag., LX. 84. We battened sybaritically.
1897. Daily News, 7 Oct., 6/5. Our quarters here are nothing less than sybaritically luxurious.
So † Sybaritican a.
1623. Cockeram, Sybaritican-meale, a rich costly meale.
1671. H. M., trans. Colloq. Erasm., 103. I see an Epicurean dinner, that I say not a Sybaritican.
