rapine

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

RAP'INE, noun [Latin rapina; rapio, to seize.] 1. The act of plundering; the seizing and carrying away of things by force. 2. Violence; force. RAP'INE, verb transitive To plunder.
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