It is that sense of life-preserving and life-enhancing appetency which is the conscious accompaniment of struggle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Approach to Philosophy] Reference

"appetency" of the liver, it was said, was for the elements of bile, and "biliosity," or the "hepatic sensation," guided the gland to their secretion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions] Reference

Perhaps "need" is too strong of a word; perhaps I'm looking for something like "hankering for" or "appetency".    From Wordnik.com.  [October 2008] Reference

The maternal instinct had awakened all its fierceness, and as the blood commenced to flow in streams from the deep scratches and bites inflicted by its teeth and claws, its ferocious appetency redoubled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference

V he deals with faculties of appetency and free will.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference

The doctrine of appetency attributed to Lamarck is without foundation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work] Reference

This at first suggests an appetency for another language like the dog-Latin gibberish of children.    From Wordnik.com.  [Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene] Reference

The term appetence or appetency applies not only to organic needs, but also in a general manner to.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference

Here he yields nothing, as he owes nothing, to that appetency which binds him to the natural world.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Approach to Philosophy] Reference

These particles appear to be of two kinds; one of them possessing an appetency to unite with the other, and the latter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Note I] Reference

From the higher power of cognition it proceeds to the study of spiritual appetency, rational desire, and free volition.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference

There is a literary appetite, which the author can no more impart than the most skilful cook can give an appetency to the guests.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions] Reference

The same occurs to the nipples of the breasts of female animals, when they are distended with blood, they acquire the new appetency of giving milk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

But the hypothesis of appetency and volition, as of natural selection, are less applicable, less intelligible, in connection with the changes in the teeth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science] Reference

This was not altogether the case with Browning, who, despite an unquenchable appetency for drama, did better work in his dramatic monologues than in his plays.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Browning] Reference

Apart from vegetative and locomotive powers the Schoolmen, following Aristotle, adopted a bipartite division of faculties into those of cognition and appetency.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference

Redoubling, then, the active energy of his thrusts, favoured by the fervid appetency of my motions, the soft oiled wards can no longer stand so effectual a picklock, but yield, and open him an entrance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs Of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749)] Reference

Opposes the view that structures have been formed through appetency, endeavour or effort, 22, 45.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin] Reference

Whatever the state of Asher’s heart, he had gone to ground, eluding even the appetency of Christopher Christmas’s researchers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kalooki Nights] Reference

There is an appetency for them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sermons to the Natural Man] Reference

Was the appetency of the ideal strong in Hamlet?.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Pages from a Journal] Reference

Lacteals absorb by animal selection or appetency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

Ctflnda abCbrb by aBimal appetency.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Analytical Review, Or History of Literature, Domestic and Foreign, on an Enlarged Plan] Reference

Glandular appetency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

appetency, xxxix.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference