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Webster 1913 Edition

Rapine

Rap′ine

(răp′ĭn)
,
Noun.
[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

,
Verb.
T.
To plunder.
Sir G. Buck.

Webster 1828 Edition

Rapine

RAP'INE

,
Noun.
[L. rapina; rapio, to seize.]
1.
The act of plundering; the seizing and carrying away of things by force.
2.
Violence; force.

RAP'INE

,
Verb.
T.
To plunder.

Definition 2024

rapiñé

rapiñé

See also: rapine and rapiñe

Spanish

Verb

rapiñé

  1. First-person singular (yo) preterite indicative form of rapiñar.

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