Citations:cacoethes
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English citations of cacoethes
- Compulsion; mania.
- [1803, D[avid] E[vans] Macdonnel, A Dictionary of Quotations, in Most Frequent Use. Taken Chiefly from the Latin and French, but Comprising Many from the Greek, Spanish, and Italian Languages; Translated into English. With Illustrations Historical and Idiomatic[1], 4th edition, London: Printed for G. and J. Robinson ..., →OCLC:
- Cacoethes. Gr[eek] — Literally an evil habit or cuſtom. It is never quoted alone, but always in combination with ſome other word, as in the three instances which follow. Cacoethes carpendi. — "a rage for collecting." […] Cacoethes loquendi. — "a rage for ſpeaking." […] Cacoethes ſcribendi. — "An itch for writing." […]]
- 1863, Edgar Allan Poe, The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Four Volumes, volume III, New York, N.Y.: W. J. Widdleton, →OCLC, page 149:
- There is now much about Kant and Fichte; about Schelling, Hegel and Cousin; (which latter is made to rhyme with gang;) about Milton, Byron, Homer, Spinoza, David Hume, and Mirabeau; and a good deal, too, about the scribendi cacoëthes, in which an evident misunderstanding of the quantity of cacoëthes brings, again, into very disagreeable suspicion the writer's cognizance of the Latin tongue.
- [2010 July 1, SOMA's Dictionary of Latin Quotations, Maxims and Phrases: A Compendium of Latin Thought and Rhetorical Instruments for the Speaker, Author and Legal Practitioner Who Must Stand Out and Excel!, [Victoria, B.C.]: Trafford Publishing, →ISBN:
- cacoethes – an irresistible urge; a strong propensity]
- [2011, Rod L. Evans, “Psychiatry”, in Thingamajigs and Whatchamacallits: Unfamiliar Terms for Familiar Things, New York, N.Y.: Perigee Books, →ISBN:
- CACOËTHES (KAK-oh-EE-theez): n. […] : (i) a habitual and uncontrollable desire; (ii) mania. "Although some may envy the sexual 'conquests' of President Clinton and Tiger Woods, most people, including nearly all women, find sexual cacoëthes and serial adultery repellent."]