No luxurious house, but a luxuriant garden

Luxurious conveys the ideas of comfort and indulgence.  Luxuriant implies vigorous or rich growth; a luxuriant garden is a lush one; as luxurious to luxury, so luxuriant to exuberance.  We do not have a luxurious house, but a luxuriant garden.

These photos of tomato and Taiwanese pumpkin (台灣南瓜) gardens were taken in not quite a month apart, attesting my claim of a luxuriant garden.

6/28/2013

6/15/2013

With garden work consumed all my spare time, I can hardly have time writing garden post, let alone other topic.  I will talk about Shakespeare’s use of ‘luxurious’ as this post will be labeled ‘language’, too.
In Act IV Scene 3 of Macbeth, Malcolm, trying to test the loyalty  (to Scotland) of Macduff, talks about himself, referring himself as a third person, using all negative characters to describe himself, implying he is not fit to be the king.

Malcolm (to Macduff):
I grant him bloody,
Luxurious, avaricious, false, deceitful,
Sudden, malicious, smacking of every sin
That has a name.

In this case, ‘luxurious’ means lecherous, sensual or lascivious. 

The Bard also use ‘luxurious’ for the same meaning in Act IV Scene 1 of Mcuh Ado About Nothing,

Claudio:

She knows the heat of a luxurious bed,

Her blush is guiltness, not modesty.

6/27/2013