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furacious, a. Now pedantic or humorous.|fjʊˈreɪʃəs|
[f. L. fūrāci- (nom. fūrax), f. fūrārī to steal + -ous.]
Given to thieving, thievish.
1676in Coles. 1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. ii. App. (1852) 194 There could be no stop given to his furacious exorbitancies any way but one. 1831Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) I. 393 How like is man in one place, to man everywhere; equally prosing, fraudulent, and furacious. 1842De Quincey Pagan Oracles Wks. VIII. 208 note, Greece was mendax, edax, furax (mendacious, edacious, furacious).
Hence fuˈraciousness, fuˈracity, the quality of being furacious; inclination or tendency to steal.
1623–6Cockeram, Furacity. 1644Bulwer Chirol. 134 In their way of Hieroglyphique when they figured furacity or theft by a light fingered left hand. 1727Bailey vol. II, Furaciousness. 1790Umfreville Hudson's Bay 36 They [Indians] glory in every species of furacity and artifice. |