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

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

And that he became audacious, edacious, and loquacious, is evident from such wit and flippancy as he here likes to display.

From The Book of Khalid by Rihani, Ameen Fares

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

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

The stars proceeded in their courses, Nature with her subversive forces, Time, too, the iron-toothed and sinewed; And the edacious years continued.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers by Stevenson, Robert Louis