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Definition of Appetizes
1. appetize [v] - See also: appetize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Appetizes
Literary usage of Appetizes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Christian Examiner (1846)
""We are derelict from our duty" — "If a child appetizes his books " — are
expressions which should not appear in a work on Education, and could be spared ..."
2. A Handbook of therapeutics by Sydney Ringer (1897)
"... till, saturated with putrefying perspiration, the stench sickens and de-appetizes
the patient, and a crop of irritating miliary vesicles is engendered, ..."
3. A Fragment on Mackintosh: Being Strictures on Some Passages in the by James Mill (1870)
"Would not a moderate portion of reflection have sufficed to tell these men, that
appetite is merely a name ; that nothing really desires, or appetizes, ..."
4. Lecture on Education by Horace Mann (1840)
"If a child appetizes his books, then, lesson- getting is free labor. If he revolts
at them, then, it is slave-labor. Less is done, and the little is not so ..."
5. New Essays Concerning Human Understanding by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1896)
"And, moreover, every created monad is endowed with a certain organic body, by
means of which it perceives and appetizes, although it is variously (e)volved ..."
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