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APPETITE
The spontaneous movement of a faculty to a good, naturally suitable to itself, or away from something evil to it. When the movement is toward an object, the appetite is called concupiscible and corresponds to desire; when movement is away from an object, it is irascible and becomes some form of resistance. (Etym. Latin appetitus, a striving, desire.)
