Middle English Dictionary Entry
concūpiscīble adj.
Entry Info
Forms | concūpiscīble adj. |
Etymology | L & OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Pertaining to desire.
Associated quotations
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)20b/b : In þe racional [vertue] is knowinge; in þe concupiscible is wille and desire of goode þinge..Affecciouns beþ foure: Joye, hope, drede & sorwe; þe firste tweyne comeþ of þe concupiscible.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)330a/a : Þe soule of felynge haþ þre vertues of þe soule of lif, and þere ouer þe vertu of conceyuynge and concupiscibill and Irascibill.