Definition of Rapine. Meaning of Rapine. Synonyms of Rapine

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Definition of Rapine

Rapine
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.
Rapine
Rapine Rap"ine, v. t. To plunder. --Sir G. Buck.

Meaning of Rapine from wikipedia

- Looting is the act of stealing, or the taking of goods by force, typically in the midst of a military, political, or other social crisis, such as war,...
- Daniel Rapine (June 11, 1768 – July 28 or July 29, 1826) was an American politician who served as the second mayor of Washington, D.C., elected by the...
- wild pillaging soldiery was her work. Goethe noted in his diary: "Fires, rapine, a frightful night... Preservation of the house through steadfastness and...
- preventing of Theft and Rapine upon the Northern Borders of England." "An Act to continue a former Act for preventing of Thefte and Rapine upon the Northerne...
- homicidia et rapinas pro cupiditate terrena ("make battle and murder and rapine because of worldly cupidity"). Theodore Silverstein (1936), "Inferno, XII...
- provincial tours, suggesting that "every province was by turn the scene of his rapine and cruelty". Gibbon compared Caracalla to emperors such as Hadrian who...
- responsibility, the indictment held him "guilty of all the treasons, murders, rapines, burnings, spoils, desolations, damages and mischiefs to this nation, acted...
- "hard blow" against the Asquith government's Home Rule bill: "Rebellion, rapine, hate, Oppression, wrong and greed, Are loosed to rule our fate, By England's...
- sardus Kleinschmidt, 1906 Erithacus rubecula subsp. armoric**** Lebeurier & Rapine, 1936 Erithacus rubecula subsp. sardus Kleinschmidt, 1906 Motacilla rubecula...
- Flynn: The enemy aggressor is always pursuing a course of larceny, murder, rapine and barbarism. We are always moving forward with high mission, a destiny...