appetency
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The coarse fare became viands of rare appetency.
From Si Klegg, Book 5 (of 6) The Deacon's Adventures At Chattanooga In Caring For The Boys by McElroy, John
He says that tædium vitæ as in the case of Hamlet is due to ‘unchecked appetency of the ideal.’
From More Pages from a Journal by Rutherford, Mark
These lacteal? ?ave mouths, and by animal selection or appetency the absorb such part of the fluid as is agreeable to their palate.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
It is from the combination and the workings of these wonderful powers that appetency, desires, aversions, and volition arise.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
If the word veut has suggested the doctrine of appetency in meaning has been pushed too far by the critics of Lamarck.
From Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work by Packard, A. S. (Alpheus Spring)
In this early formation of the embryon from the irritabilities, sensibilities, and associabilities, and consequent appetencies, the faculty of volition can scarcely be supposed to have had its birth.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
The instincts of men, the appetencies which they possess in common with the whole animal creation, are each made the source of disease, and premature decay.
From Wild Northern Scenes Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod by Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
