Meanings of cacoethes in English

The recovery of the Trimalchionian episode, and the subsequent pamphleteering would by no means eradicate this "cacoethes emendandi."

Among the rest she was seized with what we men call a cacoethes of the needle: "a raging desire" for work.

Stormed by an attack of his cacoethes scribendi, after those few blank days at Becket, Felix saw nothing amiss with his young daughter.

And this result of her contacts with Courtier, this 'cacoethes volandi', and feeling of clipped wings, hurt her-asbeing forbidden hurts a child.

If the reader will turn back to the end of the fourth number of these papers, he will find certain lines entitled, "Cacoethes Scribendi."