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Перевод: epicurean

[прилагательное]
эпикурейский;
[существительное]
эпикуреец

Тезаурус:

1. He was a sybarite or an Epicurean, Adam thought; relishing words, but Epicurean sounded better, less pejorative.
2. The fare laid before Botha last night was hardly epicurean.
3. For Hobbes, such hypotheses were in terms of his "indefinite" science based on the idea of matter in motion; for Gassendi, they were in terms of the Epicurean atomic or corpuscular theory which he adopted and developed.
4. It follows from his identification of body and extension that there can be no empty space or vacuum, no Epicurean "void" in which the atoms move.
5. Following Gassendi and Boyle, he rejects the forms of the scholastics as explanations of why material things have the properties they do, and substitutes instead an adapted Epicurean atomism as the basis for explanation.
6. As for the first, it should be remembered that for an Epicurean the worst pain is the groundless fear of what may happen after death, and that excessive unnatural desires are painful too.
7. Just as his theoretical awareness of the importance of sense-experience as a basis for science went along with an increasing interest in practical, experimental investigation of the world, so his theoretical advocacy of Epicurean atomism went along with his actual use of it in his own work; for example, in an account he gave of various optical phenomena produced by the sun.
8. The old sadness of the pagan world, so poignantly depicted in the early chapters of Walter Pater's Marius the Epicurean , had returned.
9. He was sympathetic to the Epicurean ideal of a tranquil mind.
10. Gassendi's empiricist views on the derivation of our ideas from sense-experience, on natural philosophy and its foundation in carefully considered observation, and his stress on the explanatory value of Epicurean atomism, were already well known to Hobbes and others when they were formally introduced into England via the publication, in 1654, of Walter Charleton's Physiologia Epicuro-gassendo-Charltonia: a Fabrick of Science Natural upon the Hypothesis of Atoms, Founded by Epicurus, Repaired by Petrus Gassendus, Augmented by Walter Charleton .
11. Gassendi's suspicion of the Aristotelian account is evident from his Exercises , and his study of Epicurean philosophy provided him with an alternative.
12. Reminiscent of Roman mosaics and epicurean feasts, the Limoge Havilland pattern porcelain is just the thing to serve your gourmet meals on.