a. [a. Fr. appetitif, -ive, ad. L. *appetītīvus, f. appetīt-: see APPETITE sb. and -IVE.]
1. Characterized by appetite or desire.
1577. trans. Bullinger’s Decades (1592), 756. Since man, and also other liuing creatures haue an appetitiue or desiring soule.
1722. Wollaston, Relig. Nat., ix. 173. He has not only a superior faculty of reason, but also an inferior appetitive faculty.
1878. Gladstone, Prim. Homer, 88. The appetitive part of humanity … adheres to the Olympian gods.
2. Giving an appetite; appetizing, attractive. rare.
1864. Reader, 16 Jan., 75/2. These [family bills of fare] … are not at all times sufficiently appetitive to the eye.
