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rapine


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Rapine  \Rap"ine\,  n.  [F.  rapine;  cf  Pr  &  It  rapina;  all  fr 
  L.  rapina,  fr  rapere  to  seize  and  carry  off  by  force.  See 
  {Rapid},  and  cf  {Raven}  rapine.] 
  1.  The  act  of  plundering;  the  seizing  and  carrying  away  of 
  things  by  force;  spoliation;  pillage;  plunder. 
 
  Men  who  were  impelled  to  war  quite  as  much  by  the 
  desire  of  rapine  as  by  the  desire  of  glory. 
  --Macaulay. 
 
  2.  Ravishment;  rape.  [Obs.]  --Shak. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Rapine  \Rap"ine\,  v.  t. 
  To  plunder.  --Sir  G.  Buck. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  rapine 
  n  :  the  act  of  despoiling  a  country  in  warfare  [syn:  {rape}] 




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