Word Meanings - ALLOTRIOPHAGY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A depraved appetite; a desire for improper food.
Related words: (words related to ALLOTRIOPHAGY)
- IMPROPERLY
In an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly. - IMPROPERATION
The act of upbraiding or taunting; a reproach; a taunt. Improperatios and terms of scurrility. Sir T. Browne - IMPROPERTY
Impropriety. - DEPRAVITY
The stae of being depraved or corrupted; a vitiated state of moral character; general badness of character; wickedness of mind or heart; absence of religious feeling and principle. Total depravity. See Original sin, and Calvinism. Syn. - DEPRAVINGLY
In a depraving manner. - DESIREFUL
Filled with desire; eager. The desireful troops. Godfrey . - DEPRAVEDLY
In a depraved manner. - IMPROPERIA
A series of antiphons and responses, expressing the sorrowful remonstrance of our Lord with his people; -- sung on the morning of the Good Friday in place of the usual daily Mass of the Roman ritual. Grove. - DESIRER
One who desires, asks, or wishes. - DEPRAVER
One who deprave or corrupts. - DESIRELESS
Free from desire. Donne. - DESIREFULNESS
The state of being desireful; eagerness to obtain and possess. The desirefulness of our minds much augmenteth and increaseth our pleasure. Udall. - DEPRAVATION
Change for the worse; deterioration; morbid perversion. Syn. -- Depravity; corruption. See Depravity. (more info) 1. Detraction; depreciation. To stubborn critics, apt, without a theme, For depravation. Shak. 2. The act of depraving, or making - DEPRAVEDNESS
Depravity. Hammond. - DEPRAVE
1. To speak ill of; to depreciate; to malign; to revile. And thou knowest, conscience, I came not to chide Nor deprave thy person with a proud heart. Piers Plowman. 2. To make bad or worse; to vitiate; to corrupt. Whose pride depraves each other - DEPRAVEMENT
Depravity. Milton. - DESIRE
sidus star, constellation, and hence orig., to turn the eyes from the 1. To long for; to wish for earnestly; to covet. Neither shall any man desire thy land. Ex. xxxiv. 24. Ye desire your child to live. Tennyson. 2. To express a wish - APPETITE
appetere to strive after, long for; ad + petere to seek. See 1. The desire for some personal gratification, either of the body or of the mind. The object of appetite it whatsoever sensible good may be wished for; the object of will is that good - IMPROPER
1. Not proper; not suitable; not fitted to the circumstances, design, or end; unfit; not becoming; incongruous; inappropriate; indecent; as, an improper medicine; improper thought, behavior, language, dress. Follow'd his enemy king, and did him - INDEPRAVATE
Undepraved. Davies . - SELF-DEPRAVED
Corrupted or depraved by one's self. Milton.