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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In phrenology, the love of life—a faculty assigned to a protuberance under the ear; also, the organ which is supposed to indicate the presence of this faculty.
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Let it be perpetually remembered to the credit of this apostle of alimentation and vitativeness with temperance, that, in his religious system, eating was a 'sacramental' process, and not a physical indulgence merely, as the ignorant allege. "
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 Various
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(noun) - Love of life as such; unwillingness to die.
--O.S. Fowler's Phrenology Proved, Illustrated, and Applied, 1855
January 15, 2018