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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

rapine
    n 1: the act of despoiling a country in warfare [syn: rape,
         rapine]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Rapine \Rap"ine\ (r[a^]p"[i^]n), 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.
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            Men who were impelled to war quite as much by the
            desire of rapine as by the desire of glory.
                                                  --Macaulay.
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   2. Ravishment; rape. [Obs.] --Shak.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Rapine \Rap"ine\, v. t.
   To plunder. --Sir G. Buck.
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4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

RAPINE, crim. law. This is almost indistinguishable from robbery. (q.v.) It 
is the felonious taking of another man's personal property, openly and by 
violence, against his will. The civilians define rapine to be the taking 
with violence, the movable property of another, with the fraudulent intent 
to appropriate it to one's own USC. Lec. El. Dr. Rom. Sec. 1071.

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