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Webster 1913 Edition

Orectic

O-rec′tic

,

Adj.

[Gr.

ὀρεκτικός

, fr.

ὄρεξις

, yearning after, from

ὀρέγειν

to reach after.]

(Philos.)

Of or pertaining to the desires; hence, impelling to gratification; appetitive.