appetite, appetit

[In Sw. apt it; Dan. & Ger. appetit; Fr. appétit; Sp. apetito; Port. appetite; Ital. appetito; Lat. appetitus =(1) an attack, (2) a pa ionate desire for anything; from appeto.] [APPETENCE.] A. Subjectively: I. Lit. Of sentient beings: 1. Ord. Lang. & Mental Phil . One of those desires which arise chiefly from the body, and which man shares with the inferior animals. These are the desire for meat and drink, and the sexual impulse. (In this sense often in the plural.) " Fal . Oh, she did so course oer my exteriors with such a greedy intention, that the appetite of her eye did seen to scorch me up like a burning-gla !"Shakesp.: Merry Wives of Windsor , 1. 3 "Supple and flexible as Indian cane, To take the bend his appetites ordain." Cowper: Hope. Hooker thus distinguishes between Appetite and Will:-". the Will, properly and strictly taken,. differ eth greatly from that inferior natural desire which we call Appetite. The object of Appetite is whatsoever sensible good may be wished for; the object of Will is that good which Reason doth lead us to seek. Affections, as joy, and grief, and fear, and anger, with such like, being, as it were, the sundry fashions and forms of Appetite, can neither rise at the conceit of a thing indifferent, nor yet choose but rise at the sight of some things. Wherefore it is not altogether in our power, whether we will be stirred with affections or no whereas actions which i ue from the disposition of the Will are in the power thereof to be performed or stayed. Finally, Appetite is the Will's solicitor, and the Will is Appetite's controller; what we covet according to the one, by the other we often reject; neither is any other desire termed properly Will, but that where Reason and Understanding, or the show of Reason, prescribeth the thing desired." (Hooker: Eccles. Pol ., bk. i., ch. vii., § 3.) 2. Spec.: The desire for food, which in exce leads to gluttony. "Schal ben his sause maad to his delyt To make him have a newe appetit . Chaucer: C. Т., 13,960-61. IMG:content-0641.jpg:[blocks in formation] 3. Vehement desire for anything. "They contained much that was well fitted to gratify the vulgar appetite for the marvellous."-Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. ix. II. Fig . Of things: A tendency to go together; as by gravity, cohesion, or chemical affinity. "It is certain that in all bodies there is an appetite of union and evitation of solution of of continuity."Bacon: Nat. Hist ., Cent. iii., § 293. B. Objectively: The object of vehement desire. "Ha! Melusine, my hertes Appetite, Fair lady, my hert, my loue, my plesaunce." The Romans of Partenay (ed. Skeat), 2,896-97. "Power being the natural appetite of princes, a limited monarch cannot gratify it."- Swift .