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covetousness; cupidity. To desire money for its own sake, and in order to hoard it up, is avarice. Beattie.

Actuated by avarice; greedy of gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property.

me; as, to bespeak goods, a right, or a favor. Concluding, naturally, that to gratify his avarice was to bespeak his favor. Sir W. Scott.

A captive; a prisoner. [Obs.] Avarice doth tyrannize over her caitiff and slave. Holland.

sociate so as to make intricate or difficult. Nor can his complicated sinews fail. Young. Avarice and luxury very often become one complicated principle of action. Addison. When the disease is complicated with other diseases. Arbuthnot.

The act or process of contenting or satisfying; as, the contentment of avarice is impossible.

Avarice. [Obs.] Spenser.

Eager or inordinate desire, especially for wealth; greed of gain; avarice; covetousness. With the feelings of political distrust were mingled those of cupidity and envy, as the Spaniard saw the fairest provinces of the south still in the hands of the accursed race of Ishmael. Prescott.

n accusation or imputation; as, to exonerate one's self from blame, or from the charge of avarice. Burke.

rates. To poison vermin that infest his plants. Cowper. These, said the genius, are envy, avarice, superstition, love, with the like cares and passions that infest human life. Addison. And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away. Longfellow.…

Covetousness; niggardliness; avarice. [Obs.]

e, one who ministers to the evil designs and passions of another. Those wicked panders to avarice and ambition. Burke.

affected; as, to be in a passion; the passions of love, hate, jealously, wrath, ambition, avarice, fear, etc.; a passion for war, or for drink; an orator should have passion as well as rhetorical skill. "A passion fond even to idolatry." Macaulay. "Her passion is to seek roses." Lady M. W. Montagu. We also are men of l…

To spare; to be niggardly; to be covetous. Gower. The wretch whom avarice bids to pinch and spare. Franklin. To pinch at, to find fault with; to take exception to. [Obs.] Chaucer.

e a portion of; to take and possess in common; as, to share a shelter with another. While avarice and rapine share the land. Milton.

, and sometimes prolonged upward so as to be steadied by the hand or arm. Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. Landor.

To wind into; to insinuate; -- used reflexively; as, avarice twists itself into all human concerns.

eware of; to guard against. "Ware that I say." Chaucer. God . . . ware you for the sin of avarice. Chaucer. Then ware a rising tempest on the main. Dryden.