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Webster 1913 Edition


Rapine

Rap′ine

(răp′ĭn)
,
Noun.
[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.

Rap′ine

,
Verb.
T.
To plunder.
Sir G. Buck.

Webster 1828 Edition


Rapine

RAP'INE

,
Noun.
[L. rapina; rapio, to seize.]
1.
The act of plundering; the seizing and carrying away of things by force.
2.
Violence; force.

RAP'INE

,
Verb.
T.
To plunder.

Definition 2024


rapine

rapine

See also: rapiñe and rapiñé

English

Noun

rapine (uncountable)

  1. The seizure of someone's property by force; pillage, plunder.
    • Thomas Macaulay (1800-1859)
      men who were impelled to war quite as much by the desire of rapine as by the desire of glory
    • 1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, The Bat, chapterI:
      The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.
    • 1951, Isaac Asimov, Foundation (1974 Panther Books Ltd publication), Part V: “The Merchant Princes”, Ch.10, pp.157–158:
      “You could join Wiscard’s remnants in the Red Stars. I don’t know, though, if you’d call that fighting or piracy. Or you could join our present gracious viceroy — gracious by right of murder, pillage, rapine, and the word of a boy Emperor, since rightfully assassinated.”
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)

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References

  • The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition (2000).

Verb

rapine (third-person singular simple present rapines, present participle rapining, simple past and past participle rapined)

  1. To plunder.
    • Sir G. Buck, Hist. Richard III:
      A Tyrant doth not only rapine his Subjects, but spoils and robs Churches.

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Italian

Noun

rapine f

  1. plural of rapina

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