concupiscible

[ kon-kyoo-pi-suh-buhl, kong- ]

adjective

, Archaic.

1. worthy of being desired.

Word History and Origins

Origin of concupiscible¹

1490–1500; < Middle French comcupiscible < Late Latin concupīscibil ( is ), equivalent to Latin concupīsc ( ere ) ( concupiscent ) + -ibilis -ible

Example Sentences

The soul has four inferior powers: the irascible, and the concupiscible, which two become bestial when not under the ruling of a virtuous will; reason, by which man is distinguished from the brute, and freedom of choice, an exercise of the higher faculty of the will.

From Project Gutenberg

His distinction among moral virtues of the justice that renders others their due from the virtues that control the appetites and passions of the agent himself, represents his interpretation of the Nicomachean Ethics; while his account of these latter virtues is a simple transcript of Aristotle’s, just as his division of the non-rational element of the soul into “concupiscible” and “irascible” is the old Platonic one.

From Project Gutenberg

The concupiscible has likewise its particular seat in the lower part of the trunk, the abdomen, separated by the diaphragm from that of the irascible, since it is destined, being separate from both, to be governed and held in order both by the spirit and the Reason.

From Project Gutenberg

The great defect in the ethical system of Plato was the identification of evil with the inferior or corporeal nature of man--"the irascible and concupiscible elements," fashioned by the junior divinities.

From Project Gutenberg

But sorrow is in the concupiscible part, even as joy is.

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