Luxury
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.
