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== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_140411" /> == | |||
<p> (1): </p> <p> (n.) Lechery; lust. </p> <p> (2): </p> <p> (n.) A free indulgence in costly food, dress, furniture, or anything expensive which gratifies the appetites or tastes. </p> <p> (3): </p> <p> (n.) [[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. </p> <p> (4): </p> <p> (n.) Luxuriance; exuberance. </p> | |||
== Charles Buck Theological Dictionary <ref name="term_20092" /> == | == Charles Buck Theological Dictionary <ref name="term_20092" /> == | ||
<p> A disposition of mind addicted to pleasure, riot, and superfluities. [[Luxury]] implies a giving one's self up to pleasure; volupiuousness, and indulgence in the same to excess. Luxury may be farther considered as consisting in </p> <p> 1. [[Vain]] and useless expenses. </p> <p> 2. In a parade beyond what people can afford. </p> <p> 3. In affecting to be above our own rank. </p> <p> 4. In living in a splendour that does not agree with the public good. In order to avoid it, we should consider that it is ridiculous, troublesome, sinful, and ruinous. </p> <p> Robinson's Claude, vol. 1: p. 332; Ferguson on Society, part. 6: sec. 2. </p> | <p> A disposition of mind addicted to pleasure, riot, and superfluities. [[Luxury]] implies a giving one's self up to pleasure; volupiuousness, and indulgence in the same to excess. Luxury may be farther considered as consisting in </p> <p> 1. [[Vain]] and useless expenses. </p> <p> 2. In a parade beyond what people can afford. </p> <p> 3. In affecting to be above our own rank. </p> <p> 4. In living in a splendour that does not agree with the public good. In order to avoid it, we should consider that it is ridiculous, troublesome, sinful, and ruinous. </p> <p> Robinson's Claude, vol. 1: p. 332; Ferguson on Society, part. 6: sec. 2. </p> | ||
== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_48817" /> == | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_48817" /> == | ||
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Revision as of 08:29, 12 October 2021
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1):
(n.) Lechery; lust.
(2):
(n.) A free indulgence in costly food, dress, furniture, or anything expensive which gratifies the appetites or tastes.
(3):
(n.) 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.
(4):
(n.) Luxuriance; exuberance.
Charles Buck Theological Dictionary [2]
A disposition of mind addicted to pleasure, riot, and superfluities. Luxury implies a giving one's self up to pleasure; volupiuousness, and indulgence in the same to excess. Luxury may be farther considered as consisting in
1. Vain and useless expenses.
2. In a parade beyond what people can afford.
3. In affecting to be above our own rank.
4. In living in a splendour that does not agree with the public good. In order to avoid it, we should consider that it is ridiculous, troublesome, sinful, and ruinous.
Robinson's Claude, vol. 1: p. 332; Ferguson on Society, part. 6: sec. 2.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [3]
a disposition of mind addicted to pleasure, riot, and superfluities. Luxury implies a giving one's self up to pleasure; voluptuousness, an indulgence in the same to excess. Luxury may be further considered as consisting in,
1. Vain and useless expenses;
2. In a parade beyond what people can afford;
3. In affecting to be above our own rank;
4. In living in a splendor that does not agree with the public good. In order to avoid it, we should consider that i is ridiculous, troublesome, sinful, and ruinous. See Robinson's Claude, 1:382; Ferguson, On Society, part 6, section 2; Buck, Theological Dictionary, s.v.
