Definition of "appetite" []

• An instinctive physical desire, especially one for food or drink. (noun)
• A strong wish or urge: an appetite for learning. (noun)

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• "Attend to the demands of appetite, but use all your judgment in determining whether it is a natural, undepraved craving of the system which speaks, or an acquired and vicious taste, and give or withhold accordingly; and, above all, never eat when you have _no appetite_."
• "I. i.2 (143,2) [that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die] [W: app'tite, Love] It is true, we do not talk of the _death of appetite_, because we do not ordinarily speak in the figurative language of poetry; but that _appetite sickens by a surfeit_ is true, and therefore proper."
• "His incapability of constraining his appetite is a pretty good indicator of that; Ailes is an undisciplined pig in many respects."