a. [f. L. ferāci-, ferāx (f. fer-re to bear) + -OUS.] Bearing abundantly; fruitful, prolific.

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1637.  Pocklington, Altare Chr., 148. This feracious and pregnant Plebiscite.

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1657.  Tomlinson, Renou’s Disp., 303. As dogge-grasse is unknown to none, so it is insensive to all Agricolists, who with their hands and rakes purge their corn of it, which being very feracious, would otherwise surrept all aliment from their wheat or vicine plants; for it creeps along with numerous, geniculated and vivacious radicls, which attract to themselves all the fatnesse of the earth.

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1735.  Thomson, Liberty, III. 363.

                        Like an oak,
Nurs’d on feracious Algidum, whose boughs
Still stronger shoot beneath the rigid axe.

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1843.  Carlyle, Past & Pr. (1858), 139. For the mischief that one blockhead, that every blockhead does, in a world so feracious, teeming with endless results as ours, no ciphering will sum up.

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