Indulge \In*dulge"\, 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. "Willing to indulge in easy vices."
   --Johnson.
   
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Indulge \In*dulge"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Indulged}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Indulging}.] [L. indulgere to be kind or tender to
   one; cf. OIr. dilgud, equiv. to L. remissio, OIr. dligeth,
   equiv. to L. lex, Goth. dulgs debt.]
   
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   1. To be complacent toward; to give way to; not to oppose or
      restrain;
      (a) when said of a habit, desire, etc.: to give free
          course to; to give one's self up to; as, to indulge
          sloth, pride, selfishness, or inclinations;
      (b) when said of a person: to yield to the desire of; to
          gratify by compliance; to humor; to withhold restraint
          from; as, to indulge children in their caprices or
          willfulness; to indulge one's self with a rest or in
          pleasure.
          
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                Hope in another life implies that we indulge
                ourselves in the gratifications of this very
                sparingly.                        --Atterbury.
          
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   2. To grant as by favor; to bestow in concession, or in
      compliance with a wish or request.
      
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            Persuading us that something must be indulged to
            public manners.                       --Jer. Taylor.
      
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            Yet, yet a moment, one dim ray of light
            Indulge, dread Chaos, and eternal Night! --Pope.
      
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   Note: It is remarked by Johnson, that if the matter of
         indulgence is a single thing, it has with before it; if
         it is a habit, it has in; as, he indulged himself with
         a glass of wine or a new book; he indulges himself in
         idleness or intemperance. See {Gratify}.
         
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indulge
     v 1: give free rein to; "The writer indulged in metaphorical
          language"
     2: yield (to); give satisfaction to [syn: {gratify}, {pander}]
     3: enjoy to excess [syn: {luxuriate}]
     4: treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper
        the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!" [syn:
         {pamper}, {featherbed}, {cosset}, {cocker}, {baby}, {coddle},
         {mollycoddle}, {spoil}]

105 Moby Thesaurus words for "indulge":
   accommodate with, adore, afford, appreciate, baby, bask, bask in,
   bay, be pleased with, bear, bear with, benignancy, benignity,
   blink at, brook, cater to, clemency, cocker, coddle, comply with,
   condone, connive at, cosset, countenance, courtesy, delight,
   delight in, derive pleasure from, devour, dispensation, eat up,
   endure, enjoy, favor, favor with, feast on, freak out on, furnish,
   gentleness, get high on, give way to, gloat over, gratify,
   groove on, have, heap upon, hear of, humor, indulge in,
   indulge with, indulgence, kindliness, kindness, lavish upon,
   lenience, leniency, like, live high, live well, love, luxuriate,
   luxuriate in, mercifulness, mildness, minister to, mollycoddle,
   much, oblige, overlook, pamper, pander to, please, pour on,
   provide, provide for, put up with, regale, rejoice in, relish,
   revel, revel in, riot in, roll, roll in, rollick, satisfy, savor,
   shower down upon, smack the lips, spoil, stand for, stomach,
   succumb to, suffer, supply, swim in, take pleasure in, tolerance,
   tolerate, toleration, treat to, wallow in, welter, wink at,
   yield to