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.
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Rap"ine, v. t.
To plunder.
Sir G. Buck.
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