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Definition of Concupiscible
1. a. Exciting to, or liable to be affected by, concupiscence; provoking lustful desires.
Definition of Concupiscible
1. Adjective. (obsolete) Greatly to be desired or lusted after; exciting concupiscence. ¹
2. Adjective. Pertaining to concupiscence or lust; characterized by strong desire. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Concupiscible
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Concupiscible
Literary usage of Concupiscible
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Aquinas Ethicus: Or, The Moral Teaching of St. Thomas. A Translation of the by Thomas, Joseph Rickaby (1896)
"Are the irascible and concupiscible faculties the subject of virtue ? R.
The irascible and concupiscible faculties may be considered in two ways: in one way ..."
2. Aquinas Ethicus: Or, The Moral Teaching of St. Thomas. A Translation of the by Thomas, Joseph Rickaby (1896)
"Arc the irascible and concupiscible faculties the subject of virtue ? R.
The irascible and concupiscible faculties may be considered in two ways: in one way ..."
3. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"... irascible and concupiscible Inclinations, when we know no rational cause for
them within ourselves, and therefore they could not spring from the soul ..."
4. A Manual of the History of Dogmas by Bernard John Otten (1918)
"rational will itself, though a few of the Scholastics assigned as its subject
the concupiscible part of the will. Concerning these latter St. Thomas says: ..."
5. Philosophical Works of the Late James Frederick Ferrier by James Frederick Ferrier (1875)
"By nature the concupiscible is designed to obey the rational, just as in the
state the working classes are designed to obey the legislative power; ..."
6. Lectures on Greek Philosophy and Other Philosophical Remains of James by James Frederick Ferrier (1866)
"By nature the concupiscible is designed to obey the rational, just as in the
state the working classes are designed to obey the legislative power; ..."
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