voluptiet

See volupty. voluptuary voluptuary (vô (võ lưp lưp tu-a-ri), tu-a-ri), a. and n. [= F. voluptuaire = İt. voluttuario, Voluspa lupty.] I. a. 1. Pertaining or contributing to luxury and sensual pleasure; promoting sensual indulgence. The arts which flourish in times while virtue is in growth are military, and while virtue is in state are liberal, and while virtue is in declination are voluptuary . Bacon , Advancement of Learning, ii. The works of the voluptuary arts are properly attributed to Vulcan, the God of Fire. Bacon , Physical Fables, ii., Expl. 2. Given to sensual indulgence; voluptuous: as, voluptuary habits. II. n.; pl. voluptuaries (-riz). A man given up to luxury or the gratification of the appetite and other sensual indulgences; a sensualist. Does not the voluptuary understand, in all the liberties of a loose and lewd conversation, that he runs the risk of body and soul? Sir R. L'Estrange. The parable was intended against the voluptuaries of that time, men who, notwithstanding they profe ed themselves Jews, lived like Heathens. Bp. Atterbury, Sermons, I. xii. We have the Voluptuary, when first pleasant feelings, and secondly the pleasantne of pleasant feelings, are made the end to which all else is means, and the abstraction of pleasure's sake is pursued. F. H. Bradley, Ethical Studies, p. 253, note.