Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Fruitful; producing abundantly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Fruitful; producing abundantly.
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- adjective Producing in abundance;
fertile ,fruitful
Etymologies
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Examples
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Syria, ever “feracious of heresies,” had allowed many of her finest tracts to be monopolised by monkeries and nunneries. 320 After many a tentative measure Mohammed seems to have built his edifice upon two bases, the unity of the Godhead and the priesthood of the pater-familias.
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He is pretty feracious (ph) looking when you first look at him.
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This is a feracious earth, and the grain of mustard-seed will grow to miraculous extent in some cases.
Early Kings of Norway Thomas Carlyle 1838
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For the mischief that one blockhead, that every blockhead does, in a world so feracious, teeming with endless results as ours, no ciphering will sum up.
Past and Present 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
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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 the mischief that one blockhead, that every blockhead does, in a world so feracious, teeming with endless results as ours, no ciphering will sum up.
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Syria, ever "feracious of heresies," had allowed many of her finest tracts to be monopolised by monkeries and nunneries. [
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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