luxuriant

[Lat. luxurians, pr. par. of luxurio to indulge in luxury (q. v.); Fr. luxuriant; Sp. lujuriante; Ital. lu uriante.] boil, boy; pout, jowl; cat, çell, chorus, I. Ordinary Language : IMG:content-0785.png:[blocks in formation] "Whose stately steeds luxuriant pastures ble ." Pope: Homer's Ody ey, iii. 327. chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; luxury 2. Abundant, copious. "A fluent and luxuriant speech, which becomes youth well."-Bacon: E ays; Of Youth and Age. II. Bot .: Rank; of exuberant growth. lux-ür-i-ant-lý, adv. [Eng. luxuriant; -ly.] In a luxuriant manner or degree; in abundance; exuberantly. "In wilde array luxuriantly he pours A crowd of words, and opens all his stores." Pitt : Vida ; Art of Poetry, iii. lux-ür-I-āte, v. i . [Lat. luxuriatus , pa. par. of luxurio to indulge in luxury (q. v.); Fr. luxurier ; Sp. lujuriar ; Ital. lu uriare .] I. Literally : IMG:content-0786.png:[blocks in formation] "Luxurious dainties, destined to the gulf Immense of gluttony, were known." *2. Lasciviously. Daniel: Uly es and the Syren. "Hotter hours you have Luxuriously pick'd out." "O! foule lust of luxurie , to thine ende But only that those faintest mannes mind, But veraily thou wolt his body shende." Chaucer: C. Т. , 5,347. 2. Extravagant or exce ive indulgence in the gratification of the appetites or in the pleasures of the table; rich and expensive diet, or costly dre and equipage. "Praises bestowed on luxury -for which elegance and taste are but another name." -Goldsmith: The Bee , No. 5. 3. A life of delicacy, effeminacy, or voluptuousne ; luxurious living. "When this impostor was thrown into prison for his fraud, his followers maintained him in luxury ."- Macau lay: Hist. Eng . , ch. v. sin, as; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f. luz 4. That which is delightful or especially gratifying to the senses or feelings; espec., that which gratifies the appetite; a dainty, a delicacy; delicious food or diet. 5. Anything indulged in for pleasure or gratifica tion, not from nece ity. "Or pre the bashful stranger to his food, And learn the luxury of doing good." Goldsmith: Traveler. *6. Luxuriance, exuberance; luxuriant growth. lŭz. s . [Heb. luz =(1) hazel-tree, probably, the balmondhatomuscribed below. In Rabbinical legends, an unidentified bone in the human body, destined to be the germ of the glorified body at the resurrection. According to Buxtorf it was the os coccygis , or one of the lumbar vertebræ. "Hadrian (whose bones may they be ground, and his name blotted out) once asked Rabbi Joshua ben Caan ania, 'From what shall the human frame be reconstructed when it rises again?' 'From Luz in the backbone,' was the answer. 'Prove this to me, said Hadrian. Then the Rabbi took luz , a small bone of the spine, and immersed it in water, but it was not softened; he put it into the fire, but it was not consumed; he put it into a mill, but it could not be pounded; he placed it upon an anvil and struck it with a hammer, but the anvil split and the hammer was broken."- Midrash Kohelet (fo. 114, 3) in Her shon: Talm. Miscel ., p. 295.