Usage examples for cacoethes:
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Stormed
by
an
attack
of
his
cacoethes
scribendi,
after
those
few
blank
days
at
Becket,
Felix
saw
nothing
amiss
with
his
young
daughter.
"The Freelands", John Galsworthy
-
Had
our
learned
author,
the
modern
Sangerado,
confined
himself
to
facts
and
to
reasoning
on
the
constitution,
he
might
have
continued
to
write
without
interruption
from
its
opposers,
until
by
instructing
others,
he
had
obtained
that
instruction
which
he
seems
to
need,
or
a
temporary
relief
from
the
inenviable
malady,
the
cacoethes
scribendi;
but
his
frequent
misrepresentations
having
exposed
him
to
suspicions
that
as
a
disciple
of
Mandeville
he
was
an
advocate
for
vice,
or
that
to
correct
his
curiosity
some
humourist
has
palmed
on
him
a
spurious
history
of
the
proceedings
of
the
federal
convention,
and
exhibited
his
credulity
as
a
subject
of
ridicule,
it
is
proper
to
set
him
right
in
facts,
which,
in
almost
every
instance
he
has
misstated.
"Essays on the Constitution of the United States", Paul Leicester Ford
-
If
the
reader
will
turn
back
to
the
end
of
the
fourth
number
of
these
papers,
he
will
find
certain
lines
entitled, "
Cacoethes
Scribendi."
"The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.", Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)
-
But
my
physician
informs
me
that
I
have
got
the "
cacoethes
scribendi,"
which
he
says
is
as
bad
as
the
small-
pox,
toothache,
and
yellow
fever.
"Doesticks, What He Says", Q. K. Philander Doesticks