a. [a. F. avide, ad. L. avidus, f. avēre to long for, crave.] Ardently desirous, extremely eager, greedy. Const. of, for, rarely inf.
1769. Fr. Brooke, Em. Montagne (1784), IV. ccvi. 118. The human heart is … avid of pleasure and of gain.
1835. Lytton, Rienzi, IV. iii. The most avid desire of personal power.
1866. J. Rose, Ovid’s Met., 183. Or dragon avid for his prey.
