appetency

Historical Examples

• We shall adopt the word "Appetency" to designate the Mentation in plant-life.

  Dynamic Thought

  William Walker Atkinson

• The church of Durham, he said, was the great object of their appetency.

  The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III.

  E. Farr and E. H. Nolan

• This is the reason why beauty is to all creatures an object of appetency, of desire and of love.

  Delsarte System of Oratory

  Various

• Many young animals evidence little or nothing more than "Appetency" in suckling.

  Dynamic Thought

  William Walker Atkinson

• Appetency, ap′pet-ens-i, n. a seeking after: craving or appetite: desire, especially sensual desire—also Ap′petence.

  Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D)

  Various