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Concupiscible

Concupiscible \Con*cu`pis*ci*ble\, a. [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.

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concupiscible

a. 1 (context obsolete English) Greatly to be desired or lusted after; exciting concupiscence. 2 Pertaining to concupiscence or lust; characterized by strong desire.

Usage examples of "concupiscible".

Having therefore thus arrived at two maximes of humane Nature, the one arising from the concupiscible part, which desires to appropriate to it selfe the use of those things in which all others have a joynt interest, the other proceeding from the rationall, which teaches every man to fly a contre-naturall Dissolution, as the greatest mischiefe that can arrive to Nature.