edacity

English

Etymology

From Latin edācitās (whence -acity), from edāx, from edō (“eat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈdæsəti/

Noun

edacity (uncountable)

1. (archaic) The state of being edacious; huge capacity for eating; greediness; voracity; rapacity.
   • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 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 […], volume (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.