Hypertext Webster Gateway: "rapine"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Rapine \Rap"ine\, 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.
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Rapine \Rap"ine\, v. t.
To plunder. --Sir G. Buck.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
rapine
n : the act of despoiling a country in warfare [syn: {rape}]
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