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orectic, a. (n.)|ɒˈrɛktɪk|
[ad. Gr. ὀρεκτικός (Aristotle) appetitive, f. ὀρεκτός stretched out, longed for, f. ὀρέγ-ειν to stretch out, grasp after, desire.]
A. adj.
a. Philos. Of, pertaining to, or characterized by appetite or desire; appetitive.
b. Med. Having the quality of stimulating appetite or desire.
1779Ld. Monboddo Anc. Metaph. I. ii. vii. 110, I come now to a division of the powers of the human mind... The division I mean, is into Gnostic and Orectic.., by the second, we desire or incline. 1836–7Sir W. Hamilton Metaph. xli. (1870) II. 415 In the Peripatetic School..the mental modifications were divided into Gnostic or Cognitive, and Orectic or Appetent. 1881Symonds Renaiss. Italy (1898) V. xvi. 407 That blending of the reason with the orectic soul which we call will. 1890M. Maher Psychology 217 Orectic faculty..is too unfamiliar. 1892Syd. Soc. Lex., Orectic, exciting, or having power to excite, the appetites. 1947[see affective a. 7 b]. 1952C. P. Blacker Eugenics 216 We may perhaps be on the threshold of a period when similar advances will be made in tests of the so-called ‘orectic’ functions; these comprise the qualities which make up what is commonly called character. 1970G. Greer Female Eunuch 67 For, no matter which theory of the energy of personality we accept, it is inseparable from sexuality... Flügel called it orectic energy.
†B. n. A stimulant for the appetite. Obs.
1671Salmon Syn. Med. 357 Orecticks or Stomachicals, are Medicines appropriated to the Ventricle or Stomach.
Hence orecˈtivity.
1906S. S. Laurie Synthetica I. 161 Let us rather call it Orectivity or Conation. |