Rapine \Rap"ine\, v. t.
To plunder. --Sir G. Buck.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Rapine \Rap"ine\ (r[a^]p"[i^]n), 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.
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Men who were impelled to war quite as much by the
desire of rapine as by the desire of glory.
--Macaulay.
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2. Ravishment; rape. [Obs.] --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
rapine
n : the act of despoiling a country in warfare [syn: rape]
WordNet (r) 2.0
RAPINE, crim. law. This is almost indistinguishable from robbery. (q.v.) It
is the felonious taking of another man's personal property, openly and by
violence, against his will. The civilians define rapine to be the taking
with violence, the movable property of another, with the fraudulent intent
to appropriate it to one's own USC. Lec. El. Dr. Rom. Sec. 1071.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
rape
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