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of rapine
3. of rapine (as postmodifier): (of an animal) that preys on other animals; predatory. Cf. prey n. 4a, ravin n.1 2c, and also rapacious adj. 2. Now poetic and rare.
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1599 R. Roche Eustathia sig. E5v Secure what birdes of rapine, roosted there, That ment her wretch, in their sharpe claws to bruse.
1612 J. Selden in M. Drayton Poly-olbion iv. Illustr. 69 To haue terrible crests or ingrauen beasts of rapine..hath been from inmost antiquity continued.
1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. (1655) xii. 44 For hawking fowles, and fowles of rapine.
1719 ‘T. Betterton’ Bond-man v. i. 60 Men pity Beasts of Rapine if o'er-match'd, Tho' baited for their Pleasure.
1805 R. Southey Madoc ii. i. 192 Every beast of rapine, had retired From man's asserted empire.
1855 Harper's Mag. May 759/1 Birds of rapine and beasts of prey had left little more than the skeleton.
1859 Ld. Tennyson Merlin & Vivien 578 in Idylls of King That foul bird of rapine whose whole prey Is man's good name.
1946 J. Masefield Poems 443 The Khalif's self went by, A grand young bird of rapine with a hawk-look in his eye.
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