rape, rapine
(noun) the act of despoiling a country in warfare
Source: WordNet® 3.1
rapine (countable and uncountable, plural rapines)
The seizure of someone's property by force; pillage, plunder.
rapine (third-person singular simple present rapines, present participle rapining, simple past and past participle rapined)
(transitive) To plunder.
• Napier, arpine, panier
Source: Wiktionary
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
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
