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avid, a.|ˈævɪd|
[a. F. avide, ad. L. avidus, f. avēre to long for, crave.]
Ardently desirous, extremely eager, greedy. Const. of, for, rarely inf.
1769F. Brooke Em. Montague (1784) IV. ccvi. 118 The human heart is..avid of pleasure and of gain. 1835Lytton Rienzi iv. iii, The most avid desire of personal power. 1866J. Rose Ovid's Met. 183 Or dragon avid for his prey. |