rapine: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

Advertisement 101 Questions Answered! What do Muslims believe? How bad is bird flu? Who's to blame for income tax? Click here for the KnowledgeNews answers!      Word of the Day for Saturday, May 6, 2006   rapine \RAP-in\, noun: The act of plundering; the seizing and carrying away of another's property by force.   He who has once begun to live by rapine always finds reasons for taking what is not his. -- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince (translated by N.H. Thomson) Extortion and rapine are poor providers. -- Olaudah Equiano, Unchained Voices: an anthology of Black authors in the English-Speaking World of the 18th Century The war, proclaimed William Lloyd Garrison, was one "of aggression, of invasion, of conquest, and rapine - marked by ruffianism, perfidy, and every other feature of national depravity." -- Robert W. Johannsen, "America's Forgotten War (Mexican War, 1846-1848)", The Wilson Quarterly, Spring 1996 Rapine derives from Latin rapina, from rapere, "to seize and carry off, to snatch or hurry away," which also gives us rapid. Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for rapine   Yesterday's Word - Previous Words - Help   Please visit our Sponsors     What's another word for thesaurus? Enrich your vocabulary at Thesaurus.com: http://www.thesaurus.com/ You are currently subscribed to Dictionary.com Word of the Day as: news-and-stuff@arconati.us Dictionary.com Word of the Day http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/ To subscribe to the list by email, send a blank message to: join-wordoftheday@lists.lexico.com Subscriptions can be turned on and off from the Web at: http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/list/ To unsubscribe via email, send a blank message to: leave-6714769-4826904R@lists.lexico.com © 2006 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. 65 Pine Ave, #319 Long Beach, CA 90802