Crossword-Solution: CACOETHES
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Cacoethes | n. | A bad custom or habit; an insatiable desire; as, cacoethes scribendi, "The itch for writing". |
| Cacoethes | n. | A bad quality or disposition in a disease; an incurable ulcer. |
We have 8 clues for the answer “CACOETHES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| ITCH for doing something inadvisable | 1 answer |
| insatiable desire | 2 answers |
| Bad Habit | 12 answers |
| Familiarity | 30 answers |
| Mania | 58 answers |
| Itch | 64 answers |
| Habituate | 66 answers |
| Habit | 66 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CACOETHES (5)
The only element of Plato’s thought to which they clung was, as we shall find from the Neoplatonists, his physical speculations; in which, deserting his inductive method, he has fallen below himself into the popular cacoethes, and Pythagorean deductive dreams about the mysterious powers of numbers, and of the regular solids.
Stormed by an attack of his cacoethes scribendi, after those few blank days at Becket, Felix saw nothing amiss with his young daughter.
But again and again, last summer, I saw this wretched disease, this cacoethes pectus vinciendi, breaking out with renewed and increasing virulence; and I heard women--yes, grown-up women, old women--talking about the "Grecian bend," and the tapering line of the slender, willowy waist.
Among the rest she was seized with what we men call a cacoethes of the needle: “a raging desire” for work.
The recovery of the Trimalchionian episode, and the subsequent pamphleteering would by no means eradicate this "cacoethes emendandi." When, circa 1650, the library of the unfortunate Nicolas Cippico yielded up the Trau fragment, the news of this discovery spread far and wide and about twelve years later, Statileo, in response to the repeated requests of the Venetian ambassador, Pietro Basadonna, made with his own hand a copy of the MS., which he sent to Basadonna.