Definition of "edacity"

edacity

noun
uncountable
1. (archaic) Greediness; voracity; rapacity.
  Quotations
  It is true, that the wolf is a beast of great edacity and digestion […]
  1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […]
  [I]f thou have any vendible faculty, nay if thou have but edacity and loquacity, come!
  1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, (please specify the book or page number)