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Tuesday, April 19, 2005

worthless word for the day

today's wwftd is...

the worthless word for the day is: edacious

[fr. L edax < edere, to eat] /i DAY shus/
voracious; devouring, often said of time

"Greece was mendax, edax, furax (mendacious,
edacious, furacious)."
- De Quincey, Pagan Oracles (1842)

Tempus edax rerum [Time devours everything]
- Ovid, Metamorphoses

"Swallowed in the depths of edacious Time."
- Thomas Carlyle

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