ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

evels, revelry; debauch, carousal, jollification, drinking bout, wassail, saturnalia,
orgies; excess, too much.
Circean cup.
[drugs of abuse: list] bhang, hashish, marijuana, pot [Coll.], hemp [Coll.], grass
[Coll.]; opium, cocaine, morphine, heroin; LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide [Chem];
phencyclidine, angel dust, PCP; barbiturates; amphetamines, speed [Coll.].
V. be intemperate &c adj.; indulge, exceed; live well, live high, live high on the fat of the
land, live it up, live high on the hog; give a loose to indulgence &c n.; wallow in
voluptuousness &c n.; plunge into dissipation.
revel; rake, live hard, run riot, sow one's wild oats; slake one's appetite, slake one's
thirst; swill; pamper.
Adj. intemperate, inabstinent † ; sensual, self-indulgent; voluptuous, luxurious, licentious,
wild, dissolute, rakish, fast, debauched.
brutish, crapulous † , swinish, piggish.
Paphian, Epicurean, Sybaritical; bred in the lap of luxury, nursed in the lap of luxury;
indulged, pampered; full-fed, high-fed.
Phr. being full of supper and distempering draughts [Othello].
954a. Sensualist -- N. Sybarite, voluptuary, Sardanaphalus, man of pleasure, carpet
knight; epicure, epicurean, gourmet, gourmand; pig, hog; votary of Epicurus, swine of
Epicurus; sensualist; Heliogabalus; free liver, hard liver; libertine &c 962; hedonist;
tragalist † .
955. Asceticism -- N. asceticism, puritanism, sabbatarianism † ; cynicism † , austerity; total
abstinence; nephalism † .
mortification, maceration, sackcloth and ashes, flagellation; penance &c 952; fasting
&c 956; martyrdom.
ascetic; anchoret † , anchorite; martyr; Heautontimorumenos † ; hermit &c (recluse) 893;
puritan, sabbatarian † , cynic, sanyasi † , yogi.
Adj. ascetic, austere, puritanical; cynical; over-religious; acerbic.
956. Fasting -- N. fasting; xerophagy † ; famishment, starvation.
fast, jour maigre [Fr.]; fast day, banyan day; Lent, quadragesima † ; Ramadan,
Ramazan; spare diet, meager diet; lenten diet, lenten entertainment; soupe maigre [Fr.],
short commons, Barmecide feast † ; short rations.
V. fast, starve, clem † , famish, perish with hunger; dine with Duke Humphrey † ; make two
bites of a cherry.
Adj. lenten, quadragesimal † ; unfed † ; starved &c v.; half-starved; fasting &c v.; hungry
&c 865.
957. Gluttony -- N. gluttony; greed, avarice; greediness &c adj.; voracity.
epicurism; good living, high living; edacity † , gulosity † , crapulence † ; guttling † ,
guzzling; pantophagy † .
good cheer, blow out; feast &c (food) 298; gastronomy, batterie de cuisine [Fr.].
epicure, bon vivant, gourmand; glutton, cormorant, hog, belly god, Apicius † ,
gastronome; gourmet &c 954.1, 868.