Ambition
Ambition ({not transcribed}) , noun
[French ambition, Latin ambitio a going around, especially of candidates for office is Rome, to solicit votes (hence, desire for office or honor), from ambire to go around. See Ambient, Issue.]
1.
The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing. [Obsolete]
[I] used no ambition to commend my deeds.
2.
An eager, and sometimes an inordinate, desire for preferment, honor, superiority, power, or the attainment of something.
Cromwell, I charge thee, fling a way ambition:
By that sin fell the angels.
The pitiful ambition of possessing five or six thousand more acres.
Ambition , transitive verb
[Compare French ambitionner.]
To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet. [Rare]
Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece, bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage.