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

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

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

Thus Time rolls on in its many-colored manner, edacious and feracious.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 03 by Carlyle, Thomas

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