concupiscible

From Middle French concupiscible, from Latin concupiscibilis.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kənˈkjuːpɪsɪbəl/

concupiscible (comparative more concupiscible, superlative most concupiscible)

1. (obsolete) Greatly to be desired or lusted after; exciting concupiscence.
   • 1762, Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy, volume V:

     for never did thy eyes behold, or thy concupiscence covet, anything in this world more concupiscible than Widow Wadman.

2. Pertaining to concupiscence or lust; characterized by strong desire.
   • c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, “Measvre for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act 5, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:

     He would not, but by gift of my chaste body / To his concupiscible intemperate lust, / Release my brother […].

   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, (please specify |partition=1, 2, or 3):

     , New York Review Books, 2001, p.258:

     [Perturbations and passions] are commonly reduced into two inclinations, irascible and concupiscible.