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Definition of Appetites
1. appetite [n] - See also: appetite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Appetites
Literary usage of Appetites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elements of Mental Philosophy: Abridged and Designed as a Text-book for by Thomas Cogswell Upham (1854)
"CHAPTER IIL appetites. § 316. Of the general nature and characteristics of the
appetites. UNDER the general head of Desires, the subject of appetites seems ..."
2. Psychology; Or, The Science of Mind by Oliver S. Munsell (1880)
"Voluntary appetites.—These, necessarily, are amenable to the fullest extent to
the control of moral principle, and should be regulated strictly by its ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1764)
"... they are more likely to be modelled by ruling appetites than rational deduction.'
In our opinion, there is lefs probability that fuch as take upon them ..."
4. The Principles of Psychology by John Bascom (1872)
"A third distinct class of sensations is the appetites. ... We now pass to appetites,
specialized and regularly returning feelings, revealing not the general ..."
5. Types of Ethical Theory by James Martineau (1889)
"Propensions: Organic appetites; Animal Spontaneity. Now, of these primary springs
of action we may distinguish four classes. First, there are the proper ..."
6. English Prose: Selections by Henry Craik (1895)
"SELF-LOVE AND appetites EVERY man hath a general desire of his own happiness ;
and likewise a variety of particular affections, ..."
7. The Elements of Moral Science, Theoretical and Practical by Noah Porter (1890)
"THE appetites are those of food anil drink, of rest and sleep, and of sex. ...
The bodily health and life also require that these appetites should be ..."
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