Defn: The termination of the past participle of regular, or weak, verbs; also, of analogous participial adjectives from nouns; as, pigmented; talented.
EDACIOUS
E*da"cious, a. Etym: [L. edax, edacis, fr. edere to eat.]
Defn: Given to eating; voracious; devouring.
Swallowed in the depths of edacious Time. Carlyle.
— E*da"cious*ly, adv.
— E*da"cious*ness, n.
EDACITY
E*dac"i*ty, n. Etym: [L. edacitas.]
Defn: Greediness; voracity; ravenousness; rapacity. Bacon.
EDAM; EDAM CHEESE
E"dam, n., or Edam cheese.
Defn: A Dutch pressed cheese of yellow color and fine flavor, made in balls weighing three or four pounds, and usually colored crimson outside; — so called from the village of Edam, near Amsterdam. Also, cheese of the same type, wherever made.
EDDA
Ed"da, n.; pl. Eddas. Etym: [Icel., lit. great-grandmother (i. e., of
Scandinavian poetry), so called by Bishop Brynjúlf Sveinsson, who
brought it again to light in 1643.]
Defn: The religious or mythological book of the old Scandinavian tribes of German origin, containing two collections of Sagas (legends, myths) of the old northern gods and heroes.
Note: There are two Eddas. The older, consisting of 39 poems, was reduced to writing from oral tradition in Iceland between 1050 and 1133. The younger or prose Edda, called also the Edda of Snorri, is the work of several writers, though usually ascribed to Snorri Sturleson, who was born in 1178.