avidous

English edit

avidous (comparative more avidous, superlative most avidous)

(obsolete) avid; keen; desirous
- 1794, Ezra Stiles, A History of Three of the Judges of King Charles I Major General Whalley, Major-General Goffe and Colonel Dixwell, page 335:
  Charles I. emulating and avidous of the absolute power and despotism of the house of Bourbon, first adventured in imitation of France […]
- 1824, The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, page 539:
  […] an aged thorn, which threw its shrivelled and moss-covered branches towards the loch, as if avidous of moisture.