英语词汇“of rapine”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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. E5^v 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.

单词	of rapine
释义	> as lemmas 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. ΚΠ 1599 R. Roche Eustathia sig. E5^v 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. extracted from rapinen. < as lemmas
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