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Webster 1913 Edition
Concupiscible
Con-cuˊpis-ci-ble
,Adj.
[Cf. F.
concupiscible
.] 1.
Exciting to, or liable to be affected by, concupiscence; provoking lustful desires.
Shak.
2.
Exciting desire, good or evil.
The schools reduce all the passions to these two heads, the
concupiscible
and irascible appetite. South.
Webster 1828 Edition
Concupiscible
CONCUPISCIBLE
,Adj.
Definition 2024
concupiscible
concupiscible
English
Adjective
concupiscible (comparative more concupiscible, superlative most concupiscible)
- (obsolete) Greatly to be desired or lusted after; exciting concupiscence.
- 1762, Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy, vol. V:
- for never did thy eyes behold, or thy concupiscence covet, anything in this world more concupiscible than Widow Wadman.
- 1762, Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy, vol. V:
- Pertaining to concupiscence or lust; characterized by strong desire.
- 1604, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act 5
- He would not, but by gift of my chaste body / To his concupiscible intemperate lust, / Release my brother […].
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York Review Books, 2001, p.258:
- [Perturbations and passions] are commonly reduced into two inclinations, irascible and concupiscible.
- 1604, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act 5