a. Also 7 epithumetik(e, 9 -ic. [ad. Gr. ἐπιθυμητικ-ός, f. ἐπιθυμέειν to desire, f. ἐπί upon + θῡμός soul, appetite.] Connected with desire or appetite.
1631. R. H., Arraignm. Whole Creature, xiii. § 1. 175. No faculty of the Soule, so represents Gods Infinitie, as that which Philosophy calls Epithumetike; the burning appetite, or desire of the Soule.
1822. T. Taylor, Apuleius, 357. Receptacles of the epithymetic part.
1885. J. Martineau, Eth. Theory, I. 77. The lowest (or epithumetic) part of human nature.
Hence † Epithymetical a. Obs. in same sense.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., V. xxi. § 13. 267. By the girdle the heart and parts which God requires are devided from the inferiour and epithumeticall organs.
1847. in Craig.
