Category:Rapacious

Rapa"cious, a. Etym: [l. rapax, -acis, from rapere to seize and carry Off, to snatch away. See rapid.]

1. Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; Seizing by force. " the downfall of the rapacious and licentious Knights templar." Motley.

2. Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals seized by Violence,; as, a tiger is a rapacious animal; a rapacious bird.

3. Avaricious; grasping; extortionate; also, greedy; ravenous; Voracious; as, rapacious usurers; a rapacious appetite. [thy lord] redeem thee from death's rapacious claim milton .

Syn. -- greedy; grasping; ravenous; voracious. -- ra*pa"cious*ly, adv. -- ra*pa"cious*ness, n.