Rapine

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɹæpaɪn/

Origin

From Middle English and Old French, from Latin rapīna, from rapiō.

Full definition of rapine

Noun

1. The seizure of someone's property by force; pillage, plunder.
• Macaulaymen who were impelled to war quite as much by the desire of rapine as by the desire of glory
• 1951, Isaac Asimov, (1974 publication), part V: “The Merchant Princes”, chapter 10, pages 157–158“You could join Wiscard’s remnants in the Red Stars. I don’t know, though, if you’d call that fighting or piracy. Or you could join our present gracious viceroy — gracious by right of murder, pillage, rapine, and the word of a boy Emperor, since rightfully assassinated.”

Verb

1. To plunder.
• Sir G. Buck, Hist. Richard III:A Tyrant doth not only rapine his Subjects, but spoils and robs Churches.

Anagrams

• Napier