Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In physiology, the consumption of more nitrogenous food-material than is necessary to maintain nitrogenous equilibrium, that is, to cover the actual wear and tear of the nitrogenous constituents of the body tissues: in such an event the term ‘luxus consumption’ is used.
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The other situation has been described for at least 100 years in the literature with the term luxus consumption.
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Florent.hist. virtus quietem parat, quies otium, otium porro luxum generat, luxus interitum, a quo iterum ad saluberrimas,
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Cereris munus et aquae poculum mortales quaerunt habere, et quorum saties nunquam est, luxus autem, sunt caetera, non epulae.
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There was not only _luxus_, but a great deal of life and spirit there.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873 Various
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Longe itaque a templis et oratoriis Christianorum repellendus, est omnis vestium luxus, omnis superbia, et omnia, quae humilitatem, disciplinam et modestiam dedecent christianam.
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Christi titulo divitias ad se rapiunt, ipsum magna infamia afficiunt, quum cupiditatis suae et luxus eum patronum faciunt.
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Longe itaque a templis et oratoriis Christianorum repellendus, est omnis vestium luxus, omnis superbia, et omnia, quae humilitatem, disciplinam et modestiam dedecent christianam.
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* Christi titulo divitias ad se rapiunt, ipsum magna infamia afficiunt, quum cupiditatis suae et luxus eum patronum faciunt.
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If they had cause to dislike him, they beat and heaped insults on him -- like the Florentines who described Sixtus IV. as "leno matris suae, adulterorum minister, diaboli vicarius," and his spiritual offspring as "simonia, luxus, homicidium, proditio, haeresis."
Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts John Addington Symonds 1866
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But against all that is that Roman notion of luxus, untold wealth and leisure that we see juxtaposed with shrill cries and accusations that we are too poor, exploited, and in need of someone else's income.
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