Meanings of appetency in English

This at first suggests an appetency for another language like the dog-Latin gibberish of children.

Thus also the glans penis, when it is distended with blood, acquires a new sensibility, and a new appetency.

There is a literary appetite, which the author can no more impart than the most skilful cook can give an appetency to the guests.

I myself doubt that particular application of the Darwinian theory which attributes male peculiarities of form, structure, colour, and ornament to female appetency or predilection.

BMW has finally revealed a secret project bakkie that twelve of its most talented young technical appetencies have been working on.