A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1584, 1691
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Voracious, -tious, adj. [17th c. Eng. voracious (1635), F. vorace, L. voraci-, f. vorāre, to devour.] Greedy, gluttonous, ravenous. Also in fig. context. —1584 Sempill in Sat. P. xlv Pref. 82.
Voratious woulfis, I wish you to rewolk, Ere in the den of darknes ye most lye 1691 Kirk Secr. Commonw. (1964) 228.
A lingring voracious image … made first semblance to bevoure the meat 1691 Kirk Secr. Commonw. (1933) 71.
They avouch that a heluo, or great-eater, hath a voracious elve to be his attender, called a joint-eater or just-halver, feeding on the pith … of what the man eats
