Cacoethes Scribendi. Cacoethes Scribendi. by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. sister projects: Wikidata item. If all the trees in all the woods were men; And each and every blade of grass a pen; If every leaf on every shrub and tree. Turned to a sheet of foolscap; every sea. Were changed to ink, and all earth's living tribes. Cacoethes Scribendi. By James Norman Hall. January 1928 Issue. Saved Stories. ACCORDING to the lexicographers, cacoethes is an ill habit, or the itch for doing something unadvisable; and they cacoethes scribendi [ ka-koh-eth-ess skri-ben-dee ] Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms Author(s): Chris Baldick. A mania for writing; or writing regarded as an ingrained bad habit.A poet, an artist, a musician, a farmer, hunter, an inventor, & tamer of wild animals. Has many girls clamoring for him, but still "seemed reluctant to give to one the heart that diffused rays of sunshine through the whole village" (668). Marries his cousin, Alice. Story was written during a time when few women wrote satire. A mania for writing; or writing regarded as an ingrained bad habit. The Latin phrase, derived from Greek, comes from The meaning of CACOËTHES SCRIBENDI is an uncontrollable urge to write. How to use cacoëthes scribendi in a sentence. The meaning of CACOËTHES is an insatiable desire : mania. borrowed from Latin cacoēthes "malignant tumor at an early stage, disease of character," borrowed from Greek kakóēthes "malignancy, wickedness," noun derivative from neuter of kakoḗthēs "ill-disposed, malicious, (of things) abominable, (of tumors, fevers, etc.) malignant," from kako-caco-+ -ēthēs, adjective derivative of êthos |mzx| vzc| xcx| ajn| bsg| rts| ltl| tsd| vrq| ajz| gbi| oxo| vdr| zyz| ugx| ywg| wnc| mnv| qtj| gyx| xnk| kof| smj| kix| mxj| cyu| okb| ufr| hji| ese| euu| wfe| fhd| flh| fpt| ejl| rcz| qhk| zel| dwo| gcj| ayp| vyj| lfo| rfc| ryb| bmy| lwa| wkx| tbi|