Category:Rapine

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.

Rapine Rap"ine, v. t.

Defn: to plunder. Sir g. Buck.