cacoëthes

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Compulsion; mania.

   “[…] So swallow pride / And pay the fare, / To climb aboard / As had before / For yet another ride, / On wings of cacoethes, […]”

2. isim A bad quality or disposition in a disease; a malignant tumour or ulcer.

   “As all Ulcers complicated with great Diseases are of difficult Cure, and therefore called Cacoethe: so these Ulcers labouring under Intemperies though they be well handled, are hard of Cure, and may be truly reckoned among the Cacoethe, malign and rebellious Ulcers.”

3. isim Dated spelling of cacoethes.