2. To feed or live luxuriously; as, the herds luxuriate in the pastures.
3. To indulge with unrestrained delight and freedom; as, to luxuriate in description.
Luxuriation
(Lux*u`ri*a"tion) n. The act or process of luxuriating.
Luxuriety
(Lux`u*ri"e*ty) n. Luxuriance. [Obs.]
Luxurious
(Lux*u"ri*ous) a. [L. luxuriosus: cf. F. luxurieux. See Luxury.] Of or pertaining to luxury; ministering
to luxury; supplied with the conditions of luxury; as, a luxurious life; a luxurious table; luxurious ease. "
Luxurious cities. " Milton.
— Lux*u"ri*ous*ly, adv. — Lux*u"ri*ous*ness, n.
Luxurist
(Lux"u*rist) n. One given to luxury. [Obs.] Sir W. Temple.
Luxury
(Lux"u*ry) n.; pl. Luxuries [L. luxuria, fr. luxus: cf. F. luxure.]
1. A free indulgence in costly food, dress, furniture, or anything expensive which gratifies the appetites
or tastes.
Riches expose a man to pride and luxury.
Spectator. 2. Anything which pleases the senses, and is also costly, or difficult to obtain; an expensive rarity; as,
silks, jewels, and rare fruits are luxuries; in some countries ice is a great luxury.
He cut the side of a rock for a garden, and, by laying on it earth, furnished out a kind of luxury for a
hermit.
Addison. 3. Lechery; lust. [Obs.] Shak.
Luxury is in wine and drunkenness.
Chaucer. 4. Luxuriance; exuberance. [Obs.] Bacon.
Syn. — Voluptuousness; epicurism; effeminacy; sensuality; lasciviousness; dainty; delicacy; gratification.
Luz
(Luz) n. A bone of the human body which was supposed by certain Rabbinical writers to be indestructible.
Its location was a matter of dispute. Brande & C.
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ly
(-ly) [OE. -lich, AS. -lic, orig. the same word as E. like, a. See Like, a.] A suffix forming adjectives
and adverbs, and denoting likeness or resemblance.
Lyam
(Ly"am) n. [See Leam.] A leash. [Obs.]
Lycanthrope
(Ly"can*thrope) n. [Gr. a wolf + a man.]
1. A human being fabled to have been changed into a wolf; a werewolf.
2. One affected with lycanthropy.
Lycanthropia
(||Ly`can*thro"pi*a) n. [NL.] See Lycanthropy, 2.
Lycanthropic
(Ly`can*throp"ic) a. Pertaining to lycanthropy.
Lycanthropist
(Ly*can"thro*pist) n. One affected by the disease lycanthropy.
