appetite
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From Old English appetit, French appétit, from Latin appetitus, from appetere (“‘to strive after, long for’”); ad + petere (“‘to seek’”). See petition, and compare with appetence.
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appetite (plural appetites)
- Desire for, or relish of, food or drink; hunger.
- Any strong desire; an eagerness or longing.
- If God had given to eagles an appetite to swim. -- Jeremy Taylor.
- To gratify the vulgar appetite for the marvelous. -- Thomas Babington Macaulay.
- The desire for some personal gratification, either of the body or of the mind.
- The object of appetite is whatsoever sensible good may be wished for; the object of will is that good which reason does lead us to seek. --Richard Hooker.
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“And I return with an excellent appetite. There can be no question, my dear Watson, of the value of exercise before breakfast. But I am prepared to bet that you will not guess the form that my exercise has taken.”
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in The Adventure of Black Peter
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desire of or relish for food
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appetite
- Second-person plural present tense of appetire.
- Second-person plural imperative of appetire.
- Plural of appetito
