Epicurean is valid Scrabble Word

Is epicurean a scrabble word?
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9 letters word
13 points in Scrabble
17 points in WWF

Definitions for EPICUREAN in dictionary:

NOUN:

someone who believes that avoidance of pain is the greatest good
a disciple or student of the Greek philosopher Epicurus.
a person devoted to sensual enjoyment, especially that derived from fine food and drink.
A follower or Epicurus.
One given to epicurean indulgence.
a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink)
epicure

ADJECTIVE:

devoted to sensual pleasures, esp food and drink
Pertaining to Epicurus, or following his philosophy.
Given to luxury; adapted to luxurious tastes; luxurious; pertaining to good eating.
of Epicurus or epicureanism
devoted to pleasure
displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

capitalize; of or relating to Epicurus or Epicureanism

Words related to EPICUREAN

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Words that contain EPICUREAN

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How to use EPICUREAN in a sentence

The Epicurean places happiness in tranquil enjoyment, not in luxury or sensual pleasures.
There is but little danger that Puritan antecedents and a New England climate should tend to idle indulgence or Epicurean sloth.
An Epicurean life produced an Epicurean philosophy.
Thus far an Epicurean might well go, and must go in an epic of the heroic age.
But, of the two antagonistic theories, he leans rather to the Stoic than to the Epicurean.
Horace is either Stoic or Epicurean, or neither, or both.
So far as popular definitions of Stoic and Epicurean are concerned, he is much more the former than the latter.
There have been popes, also, whose lives have been as pure, as disinterested, and as virtuous as that of any stoic or epicurean.
The school which we commonly think of contrasting with the Epicurean, and one which was founded at about the same time, is that of the Stoics.
For centuries the Epicurean followed his own tradition, and walked in the footsteps of his own master.

This morning meal and the two other meals taken by Boyton during his arduous undertaking cannot be considered very epicurean.
He was the epicurean of the system which he adopted, and sought to prove that religion is wholly independent of faith.
The first was a stout man, past middle age, whose epicurean countenance twinkled with humour.
He established an Epicurean school in France, among the disciples of which were, Moliere, Saint Evremond, Count de Grammont, the Duke of Rochefoncalt, Fontenelle, and Voltaire.
He gives Hume the credit of having made an important step in advance of the Epicurean, or Selfish, system, by including the good of others, as well as our own good, in moral acts.
They eat things too, which would be most repulsive to the epicurean taste of an Anglo-Saxon.
After our prison diet, the meals we had here were ample and almost epicurean.
Temperance and wisdom are therefore virtues necessary to a true Epicurean.
It followed therefore that the Epicurean tended, not only to become lazy, but to become vicious, or to make light of vices.
They are full of vigorous thought and bright satire, of playful malice and epicurean joy in life, and have always won the admiration of his fellow-poets.
It is the first letter in the series of his collected correspondence which is not all Epicurean elegance and caressing wit.
Content with the eternity of its claims, it enjoys its Epicurean divinity with Epicurean languor.
But I believe you, sir, are an Epicurean, who teach that pleasure is the highest good, and that all things are the result of chance.

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