RAPINE

n. v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

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.
n.

Ravishment; rape. [Obs.] Shak.

3.
v.

To plunder. Sir G. Buck.

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