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Characterized by plundering; practicing rapine; plundering; pillaging; as, a predatory excursion; a predatory party. "A predatory war." Macaulay.

Tending or designed to depredate; characterized by depredation; plundering; as, a depredatory incursion.

The act of ravaging; a ravaging; a predatory excursion. See Foray.

One who plunders or pillages without the authority of national warfare; a member of a predatory band; a pillager; a buccaneer; a sea robber. Bacon.

in carrying on, irregular warfare; especially, a member of an independent band engaged in predatory excursions in war time.

To make a predatory incursion; to plunder or lay waste. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

nomadic people migrating from place to place for the sake of pasturage, plunder, etc.; a predatory multitude. Thomson.

into; hence, an entering into a territory with hostile intention; a temporary invasion; a predatory or harassing inroad; a raid. The Scythian, whose incursions wild Have wasted Sogdiana. Milton. The incursions of the Goths disordered the affairs of the Roman Empire. Arbuthnot.

Living by prey; predatory. Derham.

Of or pertaining to prey; plundering; predatory. [R.] Boyse.

In a predatory manner.

A hostile or predatory incursion; an inroad or incursion of mounted men; a sudden and rapid invasion by a cavalry force; a foray. Marauding chief! his sole delight. The moonlight raid, the morning fight. Sir W. Scott. There are permanent conquests, temporary occupation, and occasional raids. H. Spenser.…