concupiscible

English

concupiscible (comparative more concupiscible, superlative most concupiscible)

(archaic) Greatly to be desired or lusted after; exciting concupiscence.
- 1762, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XXXVII, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume VI, London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […], OCLC 959921544, page 146:
  For never did thy eyes behold, or thy concupiscence covet, anything in this world more concupiscible than widow Wadman.
(archaic) Pertaining to concupiscence or lust; characterized by strong desire.
- c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene i]:
  He would not, but by gift of my chaste body / To his concupiscible intemperate lust, / Release my brother […]
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970:
  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.

concupiscible (plural concupiscibles)