avidous

English

Adjective

avidous (comparative more avidous, superlative most avidous)

1. (obsolete) avid; keen; desirous
   • 1794, Ezra Stiles, A History of Three of the Judges of King Charles I Major General Whalley, Major-General Goffe and Colonel Dixwell, page 335:

     Charles I. emulating and avidous of the absolute power and despotism of the house of Bourbon, first adventured in imitation of France […]

   • 1824, The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, page 539:

     […] an aged thorn, which threw its shrivelled and moss-covered branches towards the loch, as if avidous of moisture.