Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Edacious \E*da"cious\, a. [L. edax, edacis, fr. edere to eat.]
   Given to eating; voracious; devouring.

         Swallowed in the depths of edacious Time. --Carlyle.
   -- {E*da"cious*ly}, adv. -- {E*da"cious*ness}, n.