| Front | edacious \ih-DAY-shuss\ |
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| Back | adjective Devouring; voracious. [From Latin edere (to eat). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ed- (to eat, to bite) that has given other words such as edible, comestible, obese, etch, fret, and postprandial.] "For too many years my edacious reading habits had been leading me into one unappealing corner after another, dank cul-de-sacs littered with tear-stained diaries, empty pill bottles, bulging briefcases, broken vows, humdrum phrases, sociological swab samples, and the (lovely?) bones of dismembered children." - Tom Robbins; In Defiance of Gravity; Harper's (New York); Sep 2004. |
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