Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Characterized by voracity; devouring.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Eating; given to eating; greedy; voracious.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Given to eating; voracious; devouring.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having an
insatiable appetite ;voracious ,ravenous ,piggish .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective devouring or craving food in great quantities
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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They do not realize we are going to have a recession no matter what they do, and many times these panicked actions by Washington and its edacious appetite for more power only make things worse.
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Is the writerly part of me so insensitive, so edacious, that I while I am struck with sorrow a part of me is looking for ways to express it in writing? posted by Dean at
unimaginable Dean Francis Alfar 2005
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I had a prof. several semesters ago who constantly spoke of the "edacious deglutition of pig".
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PETER DEWAR, BURKE'S LANDED GENTRY: I think Princess Margaret will go down in the world history books as someone who is very glamorous, very edacious (ph), and indeed very hard working, especially in her earlier years, because she did undertake a great many Royal duties of one kind or another.
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The instant you enter the Thunderbird, you are overcome with an edacious distaste and a puncturing depression.
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas Robbins, Tom 1994
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After this Hugo, not contented with the tragedy of the edacious murderer, gives us seven pages of his favourite rhetoric in _saccadé_ paragraphs on the general question.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889
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Occasionally the road must be set back, and once the lighthouse was moved back from the cliffs, eaten away by the edacious tooth of the sea.
Among the Forces Henry White Warren 1871
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I reminded my talented young parishioner and friend that Concord Bridge had long since yielded to the edacious tooth of Time.
The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855
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For Time, all-edacious and all-feracious, does run on: and the Seven
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838
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For Time, all-edacious and all - feracious, does run on: and the Seven Sleepers, awakening hungry after a hundred years, find that it is not their old nurses who can now give them suck!
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838
qms commented on the word edacious
Today is known for tables capacious
And mumbled unfamiliar graces,
A fest that is excellent
For offerings esculent
To please both the pious and edacious.
November 26, 2015