predatory

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

PRED'ATORY, adjective [Latin proedatorius, from proeda, prey.] 1. Plundering; pillaging; characterized by plundering; practicing rapine; as a predatory war; a predatory excursion; a predatory party. 2. Hungry; ravenous; as predatory spirits or appetite. [Hardly allowable.]
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