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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Fruitful; producing abundantly.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Producing in abundance; fertile, fruitful

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. rare Fruitful; producing abundantly.

Etymologies

  1. From Latin ferax, from ferre (to bear) (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “Syria, ever “feracious of heresies,” had allowed many of her finest tracts to be monopolised by monkeries and nunneries. 320 After many a tentative measure Mohammed seems to have built his edifice upon two bases, the unity of the Godhead and the priesthood of the pater-familias.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

  • “He is pretty feracious (ph) looking when you first look at him.”

    CNN Transcript Dec 17, 2002

  • “This is a feracious earth, and the grain of mustard-seed will grow to miraculous extent in some cases.”

    Early Kings of Norway

  • “For Time, all-edacious and all - feracious, does run on: and the Seven Sleepers, awakening hungry after a hundred years, find that it is not their old nurses who can now give them suck!”

    Past and Present

  • “For Time, all-edacious and all-feracious, does run on: and the Seven”

    Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.

  • “For the mischief that one blockhead, that every blockhead does, in a world so feracious, teeming with endless results as ours, no ciphering will sum up.”

    Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.

  • “Syria, ever "feracious of heresies," had allowed many of her finest tracts to be monopolised by monkeries and nunneries. [”

    Arabian nights. English

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