cacoethes

IPA: kɑkˈoʊðz

Compulsion; mania.
(medicine, obsolete) A bad quality or disposition in a disease; a malignant tumour or ulcer.

Examples of "cacoethes" in Sentences

Boredom, a cluttered mind, and a terminal case of cacoethes scribendi.
I do not believe that there are any cases of the _cacoethes subscribendi_.
Among the rest she was seized with what we men call a cacoethes of the needle: "a raging desire" for work.
Trimalchionian episode, and the subsequent pamphleteering would by no means eradicate this "cacoethes emendandi."
The recovery of the Trimalchionian episode, and the subsequent pamphleteering would by no means eradicate this "cacoethes emendandi."
We must talk, think, and live up to the spirit of the times, and write up to it too, if that cacoethes be upon us, or else we are nought.
Juvenal wrote that an incurable itch for scribbling cacoethes scribendi takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breast.
In the month of June, 1840, Lieutenant Sturt was ordered to survey the passes of the Hindoo Koosh, and I obtained leave from my regiment, then in camp at Cabul, for the purpose of accompanying him; my object was simply to seek pleasant adventures; the "_cacoethes ambulandi_" was strong upon me, and I thirsted to visit the capital of ancient
'Tis most true, tenet insanabile multos scribendi cacoethes, and [72] there is no end of writing of books, as the wiseman found of old, in this [73] scribbling age, especially wherein [74] the number of books is without number, (as a worthy man saith,) presses be oppressed, and out of an itching humour that every man hath to show himself, [75] desirous of fame and honour