a. and sb. [ad. L. concupiscent-em, pr. pple. of concupiscĕre: see prec. and -ENT. (So in mod.F.)]

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  A.  adj. Eagerly desirous; lustful.

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c. 1450.  [see CONCUPISCENTLY].

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1755.  in Johnson, with citation of Shaks., Meas. for M., V. i. 98, where the original reading, now accepted, is concupiscible.

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a. 1834.  Lamb, Lett. to Coleridge (L.). The concupiscent clown is overdone.

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1875.  Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), III. 57. The division of the soul into the rational, irascible, and concupiscent elements.

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  † B.  sb. (in pl.) [Perh. by confusion with concupiscence; cf. accidence.] Desires, lusts. Obs.

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1646.  H. Lawrence, Comm. Angells, 147. When your concupiscents are cooled by the Holy Ghost.

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