RAPINE
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Rap"ine (răp"ĭn), n. [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.
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Men who were impelled to war quite as much by the desire of rapine as by the desire of glory.
Macaulay.
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2. Ravishment; rape. [Obs.] Shak.
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Rap"ine, v. t. To plunder. Sir G. Buck.
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