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

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

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

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 03 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

These words Hyndford listened to with an edacious solid countenance, and greedily took them down.

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