edacity
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]edacity (uncountable)
- (archaic) Greediness; voracity; rapacity.
- 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
- It is true, that the wolf is a beast of great edacity and digestion […]
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
- [I]f thou have any vendible faculty, nay if thou have but edacity and loquacity, come!
References
[edit]- “edacity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.