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vb. (context rare English) To whet the appetite.
Usage examples of "appetise".
I smiled to myself at her doctrines, which were as much as to say that the best way of curing appetite was to place a series of appetising dishes before a hungry man, forbidding him to touch them.
After a dinner as good as the supper of the night before, though different from it in its details, and appetising enough to awaken the dead, we went to see Madame Morin, who received us with the easy grace of a Parisian lady.
She ordered the sedan-chairs to be sent back, and went to my landlady to order an appetising repast, and to procure the chafing-dish and the spirits of wine she required for her own cooking.
Jim answered, with a quick glance at the hot cakes and chops that had such an appetising odour.
But all the same, when one of them raising forward painfully her broken form lifted the cover of the pot, the escaping steam had an appetising smell.
Whilst he was so engaged his landlady entered, carrying a tray of appetising appearance.
He no longer got up in the morning with a certain uplift of spirit, work seemed duller and more laborious, food less appetising, sleep more imperative but less refreshing.
He stood and watched with pleasure while Clara and Heidi ate their appetising meal with childish hunger and enjoyment.