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Webster 1913 Edition


Rape

Rape

(rāp)
,
Noun.
[F.
râpe
a grape stalk.]
1.
Fruit, as grapes, plucked from the cluster.
Ray.
2.
The refuse stems and skins of grapes or raisins from which the must has been expressed in wine making.
3.
A filter containing the above refuse, used in clarifying and perfecting malt, vinegar, etc.
Rape wine
,
a poor, thin wine made from the last dregs of pressed grapes.

Rape

,
Noun.
[Akin to
rap
to snatch, but confused with L.
rapere
. See
Rap
to snatch.]
1.
The act of seizing and carrying away by force; violent seizure; robbery.
And ruined orphans of thy
rapes
complain.
Sandys.
2.
(Law)
Sexual connection with a woman without her consent. See
Age of consent
, under
Consent
,
Noun.
3.
That which is snatched away.
[Obs.]
Where now are all my hopes? O, never more
Shall they revive! nor death her
rapes
restore.
Sandys.
4.
Movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry.
[Obs.]

Rape

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To commit rape upon; to ravish.
To rape and ren
.
See under
Rap
,
Verb.
T.
, to snatch.

Rape

,
Verb.
I.
To rob; to pillage.
[Obs.]
Heywood.

Rape

,
Noun.
[Icel.
hreppr
village, district; cf. Icel.
hreppa
to catch, obtain, AS.
hrepian
,
hreppan
, to touch.]
One of six divisions of the county of Sussex, England, intermediate between a hundred and a shire.

Rape

,
Noun.
[L.
rapa
,
rapum
, akin to Gr.
ῥάπυς
,
ῥάφυς
, G.
rübe
.]
(Bot.)
A name given to a variety or to varieties of a plant of the turnip kind, grown for seeds and herbage. The seeds are used for the production of rape oil, and to a limited extent for the food of cage birds.
☞ These plants, with the edible turnip, have been variously named, but are all now believed to be derived from the
Brassica campestris
of Europe, which by some is not considered distinct from the wild stock (
Brassica oleracea
) of the cabbage. See
Cole
.
Broom rape
.
(Bot.)
See
Broom rape
, in the Vocabulary.
Rape cake
,
the refuse remaining after the oil has been expressed from the rape seed.
Rape root
.
Same as
Rape
.
Summer rape
.
(Bot.)
See
Colza
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Rape

RAPE

,
Noun.
[L. rapio, raptus. See Rap.]
1.
In a general sense, a seizing by violence; also, a seizing and carrying away by force, as females.
2.
In law, the carnal knowledge of a woman forcibly and against her will.
3.
Privation; the act of seizing or taking away.
And ruin'd orphans of thy rapes complain.
4.
something taken or seized and carried away.
Where now are all my hopes? oh, never more shall they revive, nor death her rapes restore.
5.
Fruit plucked from the cluster.
6.
A division of a county in Sussex, in England; or an intermediate division between a hundred and a shire, and containing three or four hundreds.

RAPE

,
Noun.
[L. rapa, Gr.]
A plant of the genus Brassica, called also cole-rape and cole-seed, and of which the navew or French turnip is a variety.
The broom-rape is of the genus Orobanche.

Definition 2024


rape

rape

See also: râpe, râpé, and rapé

English

Noun

rape (plural rapes)

  1. (now rare) The taking of something by force; seizure, plunder. [from early 14th c.]
    • 1712, Alexander Pope, The rape of the lock
    • (Can we date this quote?), Sandys:
      Ruined orphans of thy rapes complain.
    • 1977, JRR Tolkien, The Silmarillion:
      Few of the Teleri were willing to go forth to war, for they remembered the slaying at the Swanhaven, and the rape of their ships.
  2. (now archaic) The abduction of a woman, especially for sexual purposes. [from 15th c.]
    • c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, First Folio 1623, I.1:
      Sat. Traytor, if Rome haue law, or we haue power, / Thou and thy Faction shall repent this Rape.
      Bass. Rape call you it my Lord, to cease my owne, / My true betrothed Loue, and now my wife?
    • 2000, Mary Beard, The Guardian, 8 Sep 2000:
      The tale of the rape of Lucretia, for example, is hardly tellable - as many Roman writers themselves discovered - without raising the question of where seduction ends and rape begins; the rape of the Sabines puts a similar question mark over the distinction between rape and marriage.
  3. The act of forcing sexual intercourse upon another person without their consent or against their will; originally coitus forced by a man on a woman, but now any sex act forced by any person upon another person. [from 15th c.]
    • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, II:
      I fled; but he pursued (though more, it seems, / Inflamed with lust than rage), and, swifter far, / Me overtook, his mother, all dismayed, / And, in embraces forcible and foul / Engendering with me, of that rape begot / These yelling monsters [...].
    • 1990, ‘Turning Victims into Saints’, Time, 22 Jan 1990:
      Last April the media world exploded in indignation at the rape and beating of a jogger in Central Park.
    • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:rape.
  4. (obsolete) That which is snatched away.
    • Sandys
      Where now are all my hopes? O, never more. / Shall they revive! nor death her rapes restore.
  5. (obsolete) Movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry.
Derived terms
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Verb

rape (third-person singular simple present rapes, present participle raping, simple past and past participle raped)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To seize by force. (Now often with overtones of later senses.) [from late 14th c.]
    • 1978, Gore Vidal, Kalki:
      Dr Ashok's eyes had a tendency to pop whenever he wanted to rape your attention.
    • 1983, Alasdair Gray, ‘Logopandocy’, Canongate 2012 (Every Short Story 1951-2012), p. 136:
      It is six years since my just action to reclaim the armaments raped from here by the Lairds of Dalgetty and Tolly [] .
  2. (transitive) To carry (someone, especially a woman) off against their will, especially for sex; to abduct. [from 15th c.]
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.10:
      Paridell rapeth Hellenore: / Malbecco her pursewes: / Findes emongst Satyres, whence with him / To turne she doth refuse.
    • 1718, Alexander Pope, translating Homer, The Iliad:
      A Princess rap’d transcends a Navy storm'd.
  3. (chiefly transitive) To force sexual intercourse or other sexual activity upon (someone) without their consent. [from 16th c.]
    • 2012 August 21, Pilkington, Ed, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian:
      The prosecution case was that the men forced the sisters to strip, threw their clothes over the bridge, then raped them and participated in forcing them to jump into the river to their deaths. As he walked off the bridge, Clemons was alleged to have said: "We threw them off. Let's go."
    • 2007, Kunda: The Story of a Child Soldier (ISBN 9966082670), page 51:
      "They taught us nothing but how to cheat, curse and abuse. I never killed in cold blood even if I was known as one of the most fearless fighters. Yes, I abducted several children, I robbed and beat, but I never raped."
  4. (transitive) To plunder, to destroy or despoil. [from 17th c.]
    • 1892, Rudyard Kipling, Barrack-Room Ballads:
      I raped your richest roadstead—I plundered Singapore!
  5. (US slang, chiefly Internet) To overpower, destroy (someone); to trounce. [from 20th c.]
    My experienced opponent will rape me at chess.
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Etymology 2

Generally considered to derive from Old English rāp (rope), in reference to the ropes used to delineate the courts that ruled each rape.[2] Compare Dutch reep and the parish of Rope, Cheshire.

In the 18th century, Edward Lye proposed derivation from Old Norse hreppr (tract of land), but this was rejected by the New English Dictionary and is considered "phonologically impossible" by the English Place-Name Society.[2] Others, considering it improbable that the Normans would have adopted a local word, suggest derivation from Old French raper (take by force).[3]

See Wikipedia for more.

Noun

rape (plural rapes)

  1. (now historical) One of the six former administrative divisions of Sussex, England. [from 11th c.]
    • 1888 March 20, Henry H. Howorth, in a letter to The Archaeological Review, volume 1 (March–August 1888), page 230:
      It seems to me very clear that the rapes of Sussex were divisions already existing there when the Normans landed.
    • 1971, Frank Merry Stenton, Anglo-Saxon England:
      There is little, if any, doubt that the division of Sussex into six rapes had been carried out before the Conquest, though the term is not mentioned in any Old English record.
    • 1997, Ann Williams, The English and the Norman Conquest, page 18:
      These four castles dominated the Sussex rapes named after them; the fifth rape, Bramber, held by William de Braose, was in existence by 1084.

See also

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Etymology 3

From Middle English rapen, from Old Norse hrapa (to fall, rush headlong, hurry, hasten), from Proto-Germanic *hrapaną (to fall down). Cognate with Norwegian rapa (to slip, fall), Danish rappe (to make haste), German rappeln (to hasten, hurry).

Verb

rape (third-person singular simple present rapes, present participle raping, simple past and past participle raped)

  1. (obsolete, intransitive or reflexive) To make haste; to hasten or hurry. [14th-16th c.]

Noun

rape (plural rapes)

  1. (obsolete) Haste; precipitancy; a precipitate course. [14th-17th c.]
    • c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, Wordes Unto Adam:
      So ofte a-daye I mot thy werk renewe, It to correcte and eek to rubbe and scrape; And al is thorugh thy negligence and rape.

Adverb

rape (comparative more rape, superlative most rape)

  1. (obsolete) Quickly; hastily. [14th-19th c.]

Etymology 4

From Latin rapa, from rapum (turnip).

Noun

rape (plural rape)

  1. Rapeseed, Brassica napus. [late 14th c.]
    • 2001, Bill Lambrecht, Dinner at the New Gene Café, page 231:
      After the Industrial Revolution, it was discovered that rape also yields oil suitable for lubrication.
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Etymology 5

From Middle English rape, from Old French rape (grape stalk, rasper), from raper, rasper (to rasp, scratch), from Old Frankish *raspōn (to scratch), related to Old High German raspōn (to scrape), Old English ġehrespan (to strip, spoil).

Noun

rape (plural rapes)

  1. The stalks and husks of grapes from which the must has been expressed in winemaking.
  2. A filter containing the stalks and husks of grapes, used for clarifying wine, vinegar, etc.
  3. (obsolete) Fruit plucked in a bunch.
    a rape of grapes
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Ray to this entry?)
Quotations
  • 1971, Bulletin of the European Communities:
    With regard to this obligation, the Council, on 26 October 1971[,] also arranged for certain producers to be totally or partially exempted from it, either because their wine production is very low (less than 50 hectolitres in one marketing year), or because they deliver their rapes of grapes to oenological merchants, or because they make quality wines []
Translations

Anagrams

References

  1. "rape, v.2" and "rape, n.3" in the OED Online (Oxford University Press), , (accessed September 12, 2012)
  2. 1 2 Mawer, Allen, F. M. Stenton with J. E. B. Gover (1929, 1930) Sussex - Part I and Part II, English Place-Name Society
  3. “Origin of the Sussex 'Rapes'”, in (Please provide the title of the work), Sussex Castles, accessed 2015

Afrikaans

Noun

rape

  1. plural of raap

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈra.pə/

Verb

rape

  1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of rapen

Anagrams


Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈrape/, [ˈraː.pe]
  • Hyphenation: rà‧pe

Noun

rape f

  1. plural of rapa

Anagrams


Latin

Verb

rape

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of rapiō

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Imitative, related to Old Norse ropa. Compare Danish ræbe, Icelandic ropa.

Verb

rape (imperative rap, present tense raper, simple past rapa or rapet or rapte, past participle rapa or rapet or rapt, present participle rapende)

  1. to belch or burp

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Portuguese

Verb

rape

  1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of rapar
  2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of rapar
  3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of rapar
  4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of rapar

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈra.pe/

Etymology 1

From Catalan rap (monkfish).

Noun

rape m (plural rapes)

  1. monkfish
Synonyms
  • (monkfish): pejesapo
Related terms
  • al rape

Etymology 2

From rapar.

Noun

rape m (plural rapes)

  1. shaving, hair crop

Verb

rape

  1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of rapar.
  2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of rapar.
  3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of rapar.
  4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of rapar.