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Mortify :: Mortify (v. i.) To be subdued; to decay, as appetites, desires, etc..

Hope :: Hope (n.) One who, or that which, gives hope, furnishes ground of expectation, or promises desired good..

Wealth :: Wealth (n.) Large possessions; a comparative abundance of things which are objects of human desire; esp., abundance of worldly estate; affluence; opulence; riches..

Wish :: Wish (n.) Expression of desire; request; petition; hence, invocation or imprecation..

Satisfy :: Satisfy (a.) In general, to fill up the measure of a want of (a person or a thing); hence, to grafity fully the desire of; to make content; to supply to the full, or so far as to give contentment with what is wished for..

Displeasure :: Displeasure (n.) The feeling of one who is displeased; irritation or uneasiness of the mind, occasioned by anything that counteracts desire or command, or which opposes justice or a sense of propriety; disapprobation; dislike; dissatisfaction; disfavor; indignation..

Mania :: Mania (n.) Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; as, the tulip mania..

Benthamism :: Benthamism (n.) That phase of the doctrine of utilitarianism taught by Jeremy Bentham; the doctrine that the morality of actions is estimated and determined by their utility; also, the theory that the sensibility to pleasure and the recoil from pain are the only motives which influence human desires and actions, and that these are the sufficient explanation of ethical and jural conceptions..

Grudge :: Grudge (v. t.) To look upon with desire to possess or to appropriate; to envy (one) the possession of; to begrudge; to covet; to give with reluctance; to desire to get back again; -- followed by the direct object only, or by both the direct and indirect objects..

Desideration :: Desideration (n.) Act of desiderating; also, the thing desired..

Wean :: Wean (a.) Hence, to detach or alienate the affections of, from any object of desire; to reconcile to the want or loss of anything..

Vanity :: Vanity (n.) An inflation of mind upon slight grounds; empty pride inspired by an overweening conceit of one's personal attainments or decorations; an excessive desire for notice or approval; pride; ostentation; conceit.

Incentive :: Incentive (n.) That which moves or influences the mind, or operates on the passions; that which incites, or has a tendency to incite, to determination or action; that which prompts to good or ill; motive; spur; as, the love of money, and the desire of promotion, are two powerful incentives to action..

Chase :: Chase (v.) Vehement pursuit for the purpose of killing or capturing, as of an enemy, or game; an earnest seeking after any object greatly desired; the act or habit of hunting; a hunt..

Mortify :: Mortify (v. t.) To deaden by religious or other discipline, as the carnal affections, bodily appetites, or worldly desires; to bring into subjection; to abase; to humble..

Continency :: Continency (n.) The restraint which a person imposes upon his desires and passions; the act or power of refraining from indulgence of the sexual appetite, esp. from unlawful indulgence; sometimes, moderation in sexual indulgence..

Feed :: Feed (v. t.) To satisfy; grafity or minister to, as any sense, talent, taste, or desire..

Acquisitiveness :: Acquisitiveness (n.) The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire property; desire of possession.

Avarice :: Avarice (n.) An inordinate desire for some supposed good.

Chthonophagy :: Chthonophagy (n.) A disease characterized by an irresistible desire to eat earth, observed in some parts of the southern United States, the West Indies, etc..

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