epicurean
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～ displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses; "an epicurean banquet"; "enjoyed a luxurious suite with a crystal chandelier and thick oriental rugs"; "Lucullus spent the remainder of his days in voluptuous magnificence"; "a chinchilla robe of sybaritic lavishness"
epicurean
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～ a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink)
epicureanism
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～ a doctrine of hedonism that was defended by several ancient Greek philosophers
epicurism
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～ the disposition and habits of an epicure
epicurus
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～ Greek philosopher who believed that the world is a random combination of atoms and that pleasure is the highest good (341-270 BC)
epicycle
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～ a circle that rolls around (inside or outside) another circle; generates an epicycloid or hypocycloid
epicyclic
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～ of or relating to an epicycle; "epicyclic gear train"
epicyclical
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～ of or relating to an epicycle; "epicyclic gear train"
epicycloid
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～ a line generated by a point on a circle rolling around another circle
epideictic
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～ designed primarily for rhetorical display; "epideictic orations"
epideictical
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～ designed primarily for rhetorical display; "epideictic orations"
epidemic
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～ (especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously; "an epidemic outbreak of influenza"
epidemic encephalitis
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～ an encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926; symptoms include paralysis of the extrinsic eye muscle and extreme muscular weakness
epidemic cholera
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～ an acute intestinal infection caused by ingestion of contaminated water or food
epidemic disease
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～ any infectious disease that develops and spreads rapidly to many people
epidemic
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～ a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time
epidemiologic
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～ of or relating to epidemiology; "epidemiological studies"
epidemiological
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～ of or relating to epidemiology; "epidemiological studies"
epidemiologist
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～ a medical scientist who studies the transmission and control of epidemic diseases
epidemiology
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～ the branch of medical science dealing with the transmission and control of disease