Crossword clues for voluptuary
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Voluptuary \Vo*lup"tu*a*ry\ (?; 135), n.; pl. Voluptuaries. A voluptuous person; one who makes his physical enjoyment his chief care; one addicted to luxury, and the gratification of sensual appetites.
A good-humored, but hard-hearted, voluptuary.
--Sir W.
Scott.
Syn: Sensualist; epicure.
Voluptuary \Vo*lup"tu*a*ry\, a. Voluptuous; luxurious.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600 (noun and adjective), from French voluptuaire and directly from Latin voluptuarius, earlier voluptarius "of pleasure, giving enjoyment; devoted to pleasure, luxurious," from voluptas "pleasure" (see voluptuous).
Wiktionary
n. One whose life is devoted to sensual appetites; a sensualist, a pleasure-seeker.
WordNet
adj. furnishing gratification of 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" [syn: epicurean, luxurious, sybaritic, voluptuous]
n. a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses [syn: sybarite]
Usage examples of "voluptuary".
As a voluptuary, he savored both her scanty attire and her mounting distress at the thought of being punished, particularly the uncertainty of what form that punishment was going to take.
But as a connoisseur and a voluptuary, Charles Cameron was a master of self-control and knew precisely the route along which he intended to lead this charming captive until she would at last succumb to his carnal urges.
A mocking little smile curved the lips of the voluptuary as he helped her into the surrey.
It made a superbly satisfying whacking sound when it came into contact with a tautly stretched feminine posterior, whether over drawers or on bare twitching skin, and since he was a voluptuary whose senses were vividly attuned, the characteristic noise it made was capable of stimulating his erotic nature to its highest pitch, as Alice and Maude quickly determined.
Giovanni Borgia, Duke of Gandia, had been ever an amiable profligate, a heedless voluptuary obeying no spur but that of his own pleasure, which should drive him now to his destruction.
His exemplary fatigue made him appear even younger than he was, stylish boy of the boulevards, intelligent and frail, ever ready to renounce even his own spectral pleasures, a voluptuary indulging himself in the idea of restraint.
Helping that murderous voluptuary out of the grave in which he belongs.
Colonel Galpa in mind of portraits he had seen of the old Spanish courtthe mouth of a voluptuary, vaguely predatory and given to expressions of contempt.
Teaching this to my benefactor, who was an incurable voluptuary, was like giving booze to a drunkard.
Philippus and Cethegus, were gone, the one into retirement as a voluptuary, the other through the offices of death.
Sir Philip was a voluptuary, that is, a completely selfish egotist: whose disposition and character resembled the rapier he wore, polished, keen, and brilliant, but inflexible and unpitying.
But Christian asceticism aims not to destroy nature, as voluptuaries pretend, but to regulate, direct, and restrain its abnormal developments for its own good.
Tigellinus reported was true only of the smart young voluptuaries in Rome with whom Nero was intimate.
The ascetics of the Thebaid were amazed to see in their cells phantasms of delights unknown even to the voluptuaries of the age.
There were no kisses given in which she was altogether absent, for she was the joy of all voluptuaries, and the mere thought that she breathed amongst us excited us to pleasure.