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Webster 1828 Edition


Luxurious

LUXU'RIOUS

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Adj.
[L. luxuriosus, from luxo, to loosen; luxor, to riot.]
1.
Voluptuous; indulging freely or excessively in the pleasures of the table, the gratification of appetite, or in rich and expensive dress and equipage; as a luxurious life; luxurious cities.
2.
Administering to luxury; contributing to free or extravagant indulgence in diet, dress and equipage; as luxurious wealth.
3.
Furnished with luxuries; as a luxurious table.
4.
Softening by pleasure, or free indulgence in luxury; as luxurious ease.
5.
Lustful; libidinous; given to the gratification of lust; as a luxurious bed.
6.
Luxuriant; exuberant.
The work under our labor grows
Luxurious by restraint. [Not used.]