Appersonation
the unconscious assumption of the personality characteristics of another, usually well known, person.
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- Appertain
to belong as a part, right, possession, attribute, etc.; pertain or relate (usually followed by to): privileges that appertain to members of the royal family. Historical Examples Where are the houses, the palaces, that should appertain to these lordly parks? The Scalp Hunters Mayne Reid The consideration of hypnotic cures does not appertain to our […]
- Appertaining
to belong as a part, right, possession, attribute, etc.; pertain or relate (usually followed by to): privileges that appertain to members of the royal family. Historical Examples appertaining as it also does to virtue, I will speak of it to thee. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Bk. 3 Pt. 2 Translated by Kisari Mohan Ganguli […]
- Appestat
a presumed region in the human brain, possibly the hypothalamus, that functions to adjust . noun a neural control centre within the hypothalamus of the brain that regulates the sense of hunger and satiety appestat ap·pe·stat (āp’ĭ-stāt’) n. The area in the brain that is believed to regulate appetite and food intake.
- Appetence
intense desire; strong natural craving; appetite. instinctive inclination or natural tendency. material or chemical attraction or affinity. Historical Examples For perception in any subject is vain, unless it can desire, and appetence is useless, unless it can move. North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 Various noun (pl) -tences, -tencies […]
- Appetency
. Historical Examples Here he yields nothing, as he owes nothing, to that appetency which binds him to the natural world. The Approach to Philosophy Ralph Barton Perry We shall adopt the word “appetency” to designate the Mentation in plant-life. Dynamic Thought William Walker Atkinson Many young animals evidence little or nothing more than “appetency” […]