How To Use cacoethes In A Sentence
- We must talk, think, and live up to the spirit of the times, and write up to it too, if that cacoethes be upon us, or else we are nought. Barchester Towers
- We began as two guys with a cacoethes for creating simple, effective and sustainable solutions that will help to save environment, people and business.
- Juvenal wrote that an incurable itch for scribbling cacoethes scribendi takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breast. Tracking Route 128….D.C. Churbuck Reports
- Among the rest she was seized with what we men call a cacoethes of the needle: "a raging desire" for work. White Lies
- 'Tis most true, tenet insanabile multos scribendi cacoethes, and [72] there is no end of writing of books, as the wiseman found of old, in this [73] scribbling age, especially wherein [74] the number of books is without number, (as a worthy man saith,) presses be oppressed, and out of an itching humour that every man hath to show himself, [75] desirous of fame and honour Anatomy of Melancholy
- The recovery of the Trimalchionian episode, and the subsequent pamphleteering would by no means eradicate this "cacoethes emendandi. The Satyricon — Complete
- Boredom, a cluttered mind, and a terminal case of cacoethes scribendi. Tracking Route 128….D.C. Churbuck Reports
- And, it does so without engaging in sophistry, for the true horror writer is consumed by a cacoethes to engage his moral imagination, to reveal a sliver of the transcendent.
- In the month of June, 1840, Lieutenant Sturt was ordered to survey the passes of the Hindoo Koosh, and I obtained leave from my regiment, then in camp at Cabul, for the purpose of accompanying him; my object was simply to seek pleasant adventures; the "_cacoethes ambulandi_" was strong upon me, and I thirsted to visit the capital of ancient A Peep into Toorkisthhan
- The serial killer was unable to control his desire to maim; he had a cacoethes for hurting innocent people.