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Definition of Appetise
1. to whet the appetite [v APPETISED, APPETISING, APPETISES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Appetise
Literary usage of Appetise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Types of Ethical Theory by James Martineau (1889)
"it is plain that we try for (conari}, will (mile), appetise and desire nothing
because we judge it good; but, inversely, judge a thing to be good because we ..."
2. The Story of a Great Delusion in a Series of Matter-of-fact Chapters by William White (1885)
"The senses electively appetise the fine food; it has to pass through their
peremptory doors of liking and disliking; instructed doors of memory, association ..."
3. An Elementary Introduction to the Taita Language, Eastern Equatorial Africa by Joseph Alfred Wray (1894)
"Appearance, ku-oneka. appetise, to, ku-kumba beha. Appetite, beha [lit. a after],
ku-ona njala. ..."
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