rapine

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The seizure of someone's property by force; pillage; plunder.

   “This countrey ſwarmes with vile outragious men, That liue by rapine and by lawleſſe ſpoile, Fit ſouldiers for the wicked Tamburlaine.”

   “Good Rapine, stab him: he is a ravisher.”

   “Justice and truth are the common ties of society; and therefore, even out-laws and robbers, who break with all the world besides, must keep faith and rules of equity amongst themselves, or else they cannot hold together. But will any one say, that those that live by fraud or rapine, have innate principles of truth and justice which they allow and assent to?”

   “And it was peculiar in their Temper, that they were fonder of what they could get by Rapine or Stealth at a greater diſtance, than much better Food provided for them at home.”

   “men who were impelled to war quite as much by the desire of rapine as by the desire of glory”

verb

1. (transitive)To plunder.

   “A Tyrant doth not only rapine his Subjects, but spoils and robs Churches.”