appetible
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin appetibilis, from appetere: compare French appétible.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
appetible (comparative more appetible, superlative most appetible)
- Desirable; capable or worthy of being the object of desire.
- 1655, John Bramhall, Vindication of True Liberty:
- my answer doth sufficiently prove that which I intend ; that the rational will hath power , both to slight the most appetible objects, and to control the most unruly passions.
Translations[edit]
capable or worthy of being the object of desire
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References[edit]
- “appetible”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.