RAPINE

rape, rapine

(noun) the act of despoiling a country in warfare

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

rapine (countable and uncountable, plural rapines)

The seizure of someone's property by force; pillage, plunder.

Verb

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

(transitive) To plunder.

Anagrams

• Napier, arpine, panier

Source: Wiktionary

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Rap"ine, n. Etym: [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, v. t.

Definition: To plunder. Sir G. Buck.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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