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appetency|ˈæpɪtənsɪ|
[ad. L. appetentia, n. of state f. appetent-em: see next and -ency.]
1. strictly, The state of longing for, desiring, craving; appetite, passion. But also used as = appetence. Const. of, for, after.
1631Sanderson 21 Serm. Ad. Aul. i. (1673) 13 God hath ingrafted in our Nature..an appetency of praise and glory. 1652Sparke Prim. Devot. (1663) 502 Vicious concupiscence and all brutish appetencies. 1824D'Israeli Cur. Lit. (1866) 205 Fanaticism and robbery..will satiate their appetency for blood and plunder. 1881Masson in Macm. Mag. XLV. 74 An appetency after literary distinction.
2. Instinctive inclination or propensity.
1802Paley Nat. Theol. ix. (1827) 466 That the parts of animals may have been all formed by what is called appetency, i.e. endeavour, perpetuated, and imperceptibly working its effect, through an incalculable series of generations. 1826Kirby & Spence Entomol. (1828) III. xxxii. 348 There is no formative appetency in the animals themselves.
3. Of things inanimate: Natural tendency, affinity.
1627G. Watts Bacon's Adv. Learn. (1640) 147 Whoever shall..intentively observe the appetencies of matter. 1831Brewster Newton (1855) I. xii. 323 The spherical form of the planets had been ascribed by Copernicus to the gravity or natural appetency of their parts. 1846Knight Cur. Phys. Geog. ad fin., The extraordinary appetency for oxygen of several of these bases.
4. Metaph. Suggested term including both desire and volition, as distinguished from cognition and feeling.
1836–7Sir W. Hamilton Metaph. xi. (1870) I. 186 The term appetency..comprehending both desires and volitions. |
