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noun

Thirst n.

A sensation of dryness in the throat associated with a craving for liquids, produced by deprivation of drink, or by some other cause (as fear, excitement, etc.) which arrests the secretion of the pharyngeal mucous membrane; hence, the condition producing this sensation. "Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, and our children... with thirst?" "With thirst, with cold, with hunger so confounded."

Fig.: A want and eager desire after anything; a craving or longing; usually with for, of, or after; as, the thirst for gold. "Thirst of worldy good." "The thirst I had of knowledge."

verb

Thirst v. t. (past & past part. thirsted; pres. part. thirsting)

To feel thirst; to experience a painful or uneasy sensation of the throat or fauces, as for want of drink. "The people thirsted there for water."

To have a vehement desire. "My soul thirsteth for... the living God."

Thirst v. t. To have a thirst for. (R.) "He seeks his keeper's flesh, and thirsts his blood."

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"Thirst" Quotes from Famous Books

... reformer on the line of the licensed or unlicensed saloon, but on other evils. I believe that, on the whole, tobacco has done more harm than intoxicating drinks. The tobacco habit is followed by thirst for drink. The face of the smoker has lost the scintillations of intellect and soul it would have had if not marred by this vice. The odor of his person is vile, his blood is poisoned, his ...

— The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation • Carry A. Nation

... may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity. To imagine such circumstances. A woman, tempted to be false to her husband, apparently through mere whim,—or a young man to feel an instinctive thirst for blood, and to commit murder. This appetite may be traced in the popularity of criminal trials. The appetite might be observed first in a child, and then traced upwards, manifesting itself in crimes suited to every ...

— Passages From The American Notebooks, Volume 1 • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... Europe and America for TWO CENTS, and I do not see how Great Britain can stand that. She must succumb. A man who thought he had been injured and was meditating plans of revenge, happened to open his Bible and read the counsel of the wisest of human rulers,—"If thine enemy hunger, feed him, and if he thirst, give him drink, for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head." The man mused a few minutes, and then rose and clapped his hands, and said, "I'll burn him." Without touching the merits of the controversy as to which did the first wrong, I must say that the course of the ...

— Cheap Postage • Joshua Leavitt

... scourged and spitted on and crucified—this final satisfaction of His tender love. "Eye hath not seen nor ear heard nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive the things that God hath prepared. They shall hunger no more nor thirst any more, neither shall the sun light on them nor any burning heat, for the Lamb which is in the midst of the Throne shall shepherd them and lead them to eternal fountains of waters, and God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes. There shall be no more death—no mourning nor crying ...

— The Gospel of the Hereafter • J. Paterson-Smyth

... heals and saves; we are tired of theoretic husks,—as tired as was the prodi- gal son of the carobs which he shared with the swine, to whom he fed that wholesome but unattractive food. Like him, we would find our Father's house again— [25] the perfect and eternal Principle of man. We thirst for inspiring wine from the vine which our Father tends. We crave the privilege of saying to ...

— Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 • Mary Baker Eddy

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