esurient

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Very greedy or hungry; ravenous; (figuratively) avid, eager.

   “So that (as I apprehend) theſe Famelick, Eſurient, and Sitient Spirits are not the Ferments product of Concoction in the Ventricle, but only incentives, ordained by nature to render us deſirous of Aliment, to repair the decaying frame of our Body.”

2. isim One who is greedy or hungry.

   “Sure it is that he [Philip Nye] was a moſt dangerous and ſeditious Perſon, a politick Pulpit driver of Independency, an inſatiable eſurient after riches, and what not to raiſe a family and to heap up wealth.”