adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a voracious manner; greedily, gluttonously, ravenously.

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1752.  J. Hill, Hist. Anim., 381. All four of the species of this singular genus are fond of pepper, but this eats it most voraciously.

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1776.  Mrs. Delany, Life & Corr. (1862), II. 208. They came starved,… and eat their little dinner voraciously.

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1839.  Dickens, Nickleby, v. The boys began to eat voraciously, and in desperate haste.

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1864.  C. Geikie, Life in Woods, xi. (1874), 191. Even the bush people … eat it voraciously.

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1902.  J. Buchan, Watcher by Threshold, 73. I was voraciously hungry.

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  fig.  1840.  Mrs. Carlyle, Lett. (1883), I. 126. Carlyle is reading voraciously, great folios.

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