voluptuous (voluptuus)

[ Soften'd with pleasure and voluptuous life. Milton , S. A., 1. 534. 3. Contributing to sensual pleasure; exciting, or tending to excite, sensual desires and indulgence; sensual. He that is temperate fleeth pleasures voluptuous . Sir T. Elyot , The Govern our, iii. 20. Voluptuous idlene . Holland, tr. of Pliny, xix. 4. Ah, Vice! how soft are thy voluptuous ways! Byron, Childe Harold, i. 65. Barbara Palmer, Duche of Cleveland, was there, no longer young, but still retaining some traces of that superb and voluptuous loveline which twenty years before overcame the hearts of all men. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., iv. The face voluptuous, yet pure; funeste, but innocent. J. S. Fanu, Tenants of Mallory, i. Low voluptuous music winding. Tennyson, Vision of Sin, ii. 4. Given to the enjoyments of luxury and pleasure; indulging in sensual gratifications. ratification Thou wilt bring me soon where I shall reign At thy right hand voluptuous , as beseems Thy daughter and thy darling, without end. Milton , P. L., ii. 869. Jolly and voluptuous livers. Bp. Atterbury, Sermons, IV. iv. =Syn. Carnal , Sensuous , etc. See sensual . voluptuously (vo-lup'tū-us-li), adv . In a voluptuous manner; with free indulgence in sensual. pleasures; luxuriously; sensually: as, to live voluptuously . Voluptuously surfeit out of action. Shak ., Cor., i. 3. 27. voluptuousne (vo-lup'tū-us-nes), n. The state or character of being voluptuous, or addicted to the pursuit of pleasure and sensual gratification; luxuriousne . But there's no bottom, none, In my voluptuousne ; your wives, your daughters, Your matrons, and your maids could not fill up The cistern of my lust. Shak ., Macbeth, iv. 3. 61. The voluptuousne of holding a human being in his [the slave-owner's] absolute control. Emerson, West Indian Emancipation. To the north-east, in places, the backs and sides of the mountains have a green, pastoral voluptuousne , so smooth The Century , XXIV. 421. voluptyt, n. [Early mod. E. also voluptie ; volupte , F. volupt volupté = Pr. voluptat = It. vo luptà , voluttà , volupta ( t- ) s , enjoyment, delight.] Voluptuous Sir T. Elyot , The Govern our, iii. 20. Voluspa (vol-us-pä'), n. [ Voluspa , the song of the sibyl, polu , gen, of völva , also völfa (pl. võlur ) , a prophete , sibyl, wise woman, + spā , prophesy, also pry, look, > Se. spae : see and full are they with thick turf. The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary Voluspa spae, and cf. spaewife.] 1. The name (literally, the Prophecy of the Sibyl') of a poem of the Elder Edda.-2. [ l. c.] Erroneously, a Scand in avian prophete or sibyl. Here seated, the voluspa or sibyl was to listen to the rhymical inquiries which should be made to her, and to return an extemporaneous answer. Scott, Pirate, xxi. Voluta (vo-lūta), n. [NL. (Linnæus, 1758),