edacity

English

Etymology

Latin edacitas.

Noun

edacity (uncountable)

greediness; voracity; rapacity
- Franicis Bacon, Natural History
  It is true, that the wolf is a beast of great edacity and digestion […]
- 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History
  [I]f thou have any vendible faculty, nay if thou have but edacity and loquacity, come!

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for edacity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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