a. and sb. [ad. L. appetībil-is desirable, f. appetĕre: see APPETE and -BLE.]

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  A.  adj.

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  † 1.  Having appetite or affinity; attractive. Obs.

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1471.  Ripley, Comp. Alch., in Ashm. (1652), I. Kynd to kynde hath appetyble inclynacyon.

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  2.  Worthy of being sought after, desirable.

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1622.  Mabbe, trans. Aleman’s Guzman d’Alf., II. 307. Such Graces are Appetible in their owne nature.

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1660.  Stanley, Hist. Philos. (1701), 259/2. The Appetible Object, which moveth the Appetite.

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1847.  Blackw. Mag., LXI. 589/2. The disease lurking at the core has been forgotten in the bright colours and pleasant flavour of the appetible fruit.

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  † B.  sb. An object of desire. Obs.

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1698.  South, 48 Serm. (1715), IV. v. 216 (R.). Sufficient to draw forth, and determine the Actings of it [the will], unless there interpose some stronger Appetibile.

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