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Appetitive   Listen
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Appetitive  adj.  Having the quality of desiring gratification; as, appetitive power or faculty.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... part of ethics, and the state as the copy of a well-regulated individual life: from the three different activities of the soul he deduced the three main elements of the state, likening the working class to the appetitive element of the soul, both of which equally require to be kept under control; the military order, which answered, in his idea, to the emotive element, ought to develop itself in thorough dependence on the reason; and from that the governing order, answering to the rational faculty, ...
— The Academic Questions • M. T. Cicero



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