appetent

Latin appetēns, present participle of appetō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈæpətənt/

appetent (comparative more appetent, superlative most appetent)

1. (archaic) eagerly desirous; greedy
   • 1619, George Buck, The History of King Richard the Third:

     knowing the Earle to be thirsty and Appetent after Glory and Renownie

   • 1915, Willa Sibert Cather, The Song of the Lark, Part 2/Chapter 5:

     During this first winter Thea got no city consciousness. Chicago was simply a wilderness through which one had to find one's way. She felt no interest in the general briskness and zest of the crowds. The crash and scramble of that big, rich, appetent Western city she did not take in at all, except to notice that the noise of the drays and street-cars tired her.

• appetite
• appetition

• “appetent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

appetent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of appetō