furaciousadj.
/fjʊˈreɪʃəs/ Now pedantic or humorous.
Given to thieving, thievish.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > [adjective] > stealing or inclined to
bribering?1529
picking1535
thievish1538
prigging1567
felonous1570
thieving1598
Hungarian1608
theftuous1632
felonious1637
predacious1665
furacious1676
priggish1699
furtive1816
kleptic1865
1676 E. Coles Eng. Dict. Furacious, pilfering, theevish.
1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi ii. App. 54/1 There could be no stop given to his Furacious Exorbitancies any way but One.
1831 T. P. Thompson in Westm. Rev. Apr. 273 How like is man in one place, to man every where;—equally prosing, fraudulent, and furacious.
1858 T. De Quincey Pagan Oracles (rev. ed.) in Select. Grave & Gay VIII. 208 Greece was mendax, edax, furax (mendacious, edacious, furacious).
Derivatives
fuˈraciousness n.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > [noun] > disposition to
thievishnessc1460
furacity1623
furaciousness1727
1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Furaciousness.
fuˈracity n. the quality of being furacious; inclination or tendency to steal.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > [noun] > disposition to
thievishnessc1460
furacity1623
furaciousness1727
1623–6 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Furacity.
1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 134 In their way of Hieroglyphique when they figured furacity or theft by a light fingered left hand.
1790 E. Umfreville Present State of Hudson's Bay 36 They [Indians] glory in every species of furacity and artifice.
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