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

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

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

Personages of it, Two British subjects in the high Diplomatic line: ponderous Scotch Lord of an edacious gloomy countenance; florid Yorkshire Gentleman with important Proposals in his pocket.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 13 by Carlyle, Thomas

King of edacious Flunkies; not without fine qualities, which he turned to such a use amid the temptations of this world!

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 09 by Carlyle, Thomas