edacity

English

Etymology

Latin edacitas.

Noun

edacity (uncountable)

1. (archaic) Greediness; voracity; rapacity.
   • 1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, 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 […], volumes (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

• “edacity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.