EPICURE
NOUNS, PERSON
1540 ► BELLY-GOD one who makes a god of his belly; one whose great pleasure it is to gratify his appetite; a glutton; an epicure
1598 ► FRIAND a person of dainty taste in food; an epicure → obs.
1620 ► PALATIST a person who studies the palate; an epicure
1661 ► PALATE-MAN a man given to the pleasures of the palate; an epicure → obs.
1820 ► GASTROLOGER an epicure, a judge of good eating
1820 ► GASTRONOMER a judge of good eating, an epicure
1821 ► PALATICIAN one skilled in matters of the palate → obs.
1822 ► GASTROLOGIST an epicure, a judge of good eating
1823 ► GASTRONOME one skilled in what goes into the belly; a judge of good eating; a gourmet, an epicure
1825 ► GASTRONOMIST a judge of good eating, an epicure
VERBS
1634 ► EPICURIZE to play the epicure; to eat or feast daintily or luxuriously → obs.
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