appetite

t. [From the substantive.] Greatly to desire. ( Chaucer.) appetiting by generation to bring forth his semblable." Sir T. Elyot: Govern our, p. 70. ap-pě-ti-tion, s. [In Ital. appetizione ; Lat. appetitio = (1) a grasping at, (2) a pa ionate longing for, (3) appetite.] Vehement desire. "The actual appetition or fastening our affections on him."-Hammond: Practical Catechism. "We find in animals an estimative or judicial faculty, an appetition or avers at i on."-Judge Hale. *ăp-pě-ti-tious, a. [Eng. appetit (e); i; -ous. ] Grateful to the appetite, desirable. "Some light inspersions of truth to make them appetitious , pa able, and toothsome."-Brief Descrip. of Fan a ticks, & c . (1660), p. 17.