edacious

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Despite the author's overfondness for obscure�and sometimes misspelled�words, such as lachrymator, ecdysize, catasta, edacious and vibrissae,* Filmore's wide-eyed discovery that stone walls do not a prison make has some fine moments of upside-down humor.

From Time Magazine Archive

Occasionally the road must be set back, and once the lighthouse was moved back from the cliffs, eaten away by the edacious tooth of the sea.

From Among the Forces by Warren, Henry White

Augustus, the physically strong, is no more; transcendent king of edacious flunkies, father of 354 children, but not without fine qualities; and Poland has to find a new king.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

After this Hugo, not contented with the tragedy of the edacious murderer, gives us seven pages of his favourite rhetoric in saccadé paragraphs on the general question.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George

If, mounting MALAMBRUNO's steed, He showed more sanguine than sagacious, He was not moved by huckster greed, Or pride edacious.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, November 29, 1890 by Various