Concupiscible
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /kənˈkjuːpɪsɪbəl/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Concupiscible is an adjective meaning (theology) Relating to the concupiscible passions.
Meaning
(theology) Relating to the concupiscible passions.
More Meanings
- (archaic) Greatly to be desired or lusted after; exciting concupiscence.
- (archaic) Pertaining to concupiscence or lust; characterized by strong desire.
Example Sentences
He would not, but by gift of my chaste body / To his concupiscible intemperate lust, / Release my brother […]
For never did thy eyes behold, or thy concupiscence covet, anything in this world more concupiscible than widow Wadman.
Perturbations and passions, which trouble the fantasy, though they dwell between the confines of sense and reason, yet they rather follow sense than reason because they are drowned in corporeal organs of sense. They are commonly reduced into two inclinations, irascible and concupiscible.
The irascible and concupiscible appetites are distinguished by different aspects of their objects. The object of the concupiscible faculty "is sensible good or evil, simply apprehended as such" while good and evil considered as "arduous or difficult … is the object of the irascible faculty."
Antonyms for concupiscible
Common opposites include irascible.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include desireful, lustful, sexful, aphrodisiac, lustfull, lustious.
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