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Vice :: Vice (n.) A moral fault or failing; especially, immoral conduct or habit, as in the indulgence of degrading appetites; customary deviation in a single respect, or in general, from a right standard, implying a defect of natural character, or the result of training and habits; a harmful custom; immorality; depravity; wickedness; as, a life of vice; the vice of intemperance..

Cynical :: Cynical (a.) Given to sneering at rectitude and the conduct of life by moral principles; disbelieving in the reality of any human purposes which are not suggested or directed by self-interest or self-indulgence; as, a cynical man who scoffs at pretensions of integrity; characterized by such opinions; as, cynical views of human nature..

Pet :: Pet (n.) Any person or animal especially cherished and indulged; a fondling; a darling; often, a favorite child..

Humor :: Humor (v. t.) To help on by indulgence or compliant treatment; to soothe; to gratify; to please.

Sorehon :: Sorehon (n.) Formerly, in Ireland, a kind of servile tenure which subjected the tenant to maintain his chieftain gratuitously whenever he wished to indulge in a revel..

Romp :: Romp (n.) A girl who indulges in boisterous play.

Indulge :: Indulge (v. i.) To indulge one's self; to gratify one's tastes or desires; esp., to give one's self up (to); to practice a forbidden or questionable act without restraint; -- followed by in, but formerly, also, by to..

Indulge :: Indulge (v. t.) to give free course to; to give one's self up to; as, to indulge sloth, pride, selfishness, or inclinations;.

Fond :: Fond (superl.) Foolishly tender and loving; weakly indulgent; over-affectionate.

Jubilee :: "Jubilee (n.) A church solemnity or ceremony celebrated at Rome, at stated intervals, originally of one hundred years, but latterly of twenty-five; a plenary and extraordinary indulgence grated by the sovereign pontiff to the universal church. One invariable condition of granting this indulgence is the confession of sins and receiving of the eucharist..

Excuse :: Excuse (v. t.) To regard with indulgence; to view leniently or to overlook; to pardon.

Faculty :: Faculty (n.) Privilege or permission, granted by favor or indulgence, to do a particular thing; authority; license; dispensation..

Rigor :: Rigor (n.) Exactness without allowance, deviation, or indulgence; strictness; as, the rigor of criticism; to execute a law with rigor; to enforce moral duties with rigor; -- opposed to lenity..

Pardoner :: Pardoner (n.) A seller of indulgences.

Incontinency :: Incontinency (n.) Incapacity to hold; hence, incapacity to hold back or restrain; the quality or state of being incontinent; want of continence; failure to restrain the passions or appetites; indulgence of lust; lewdness..

Persifleur :: Persifleur (n.) One who indulges in persiflage; a banterer; a quiz.

Saturnalia :: Saturnalia (n. pl.) Hence: A period or occasion of general license, in which the passions or vices have riotous indulgence..

Indulge :: Indulge (v. t.) To grant as by favor; to bestow in concession, or in compliance with a wish or request..

Indulgence :: Indulgence (n.) Remission of the temporal punishment due to sins, after the guilt of sin has been remitted by sincere repentance; absolution from the censures and public penances of the church. It is a payment of the debt of justice to God by the application of the merits of Christ and his saints to the contrite soul through the church. It is therefore believed to diminish or destroy for sins the punishment of purgatory..

Take :: Take (v. t.) To assume; to adopt; to acquire, as shape; to permit to one's self; to indulge or engage in; to yield to; to have or feel; to enjoy or experience, as rest, revenge, delight, shame; to form and adopt, as a resolution; -- used in general senses, limited by a following complement, in many idiomatic phrases; as, to take a resolution; I take the liberty to say..

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