appetency

This was not altogether the case with Browning, who, despite an unquenchable appetency for drama, did better work in his dramatic monologues than in his plays.

From Robert Browning by C. H. (Charles Harold) Herford

If the word veut has suggested the doctrine of appetency in meaning has been pushed too far by the critics of Lamarck.

From Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work by A. S. (Alpheus Spring) Packard

This at first suggests an appetency for another language like the dog-Latin gibberish of children.

From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by G. Stanley Hall

The third sort, or Perception regulated by animal appetency, is that in which the brain directs from within, such movements of the muscular fibres, as are requisite for the execution of any purpose.

From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Franklin Bache

There is such a thing in the human mind as unrealized truth, both intellectual and spiritual; the inarticulate muttering of an obscurely felt sentiment; a vague appetency for something we are not distinctly conscious of.

From The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic by Henry Rogers

In this early formation of the embryon from the irritabilities, sensibilities, and associabilities, and consequent appetencies, the faculty of volition can scarcely be supposed to have had its birth.

From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin

The instincts of men, the appetencies which they possess in common with the whole animal creation, are each made the source of disease, and premature decay.

From Wild Northern Scenes Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod by S. H. (Samuel H.) Hammond