predatoryadj.

Brit.

/ˈprɛdət(ə)ri/, U.S.

/ˈprɛdəˌtɔri/

Forms: 1500s– predatory, 1600s–1700s praedatory.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin praedātōrius.

Etymology: < classical Latin praedātōrius marauding, plundering, piratical < praedātor plunderer (see predator n.) + -ius , suffix forming adjectives; compare -ory suffix².

a. Of, relating to, of the nature of, or involving plunder, pillage, or ruthless exploitation.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > spoliation or depredation > [adjective]

ravenousc1425

rapinous1484

polling1526

spoiling1565

predatory1589

pilling1590

spoilful1590

plundering1641

vulturian1659

predatitious1660

pillagingc1670

vulturine1721

predal1737

depredatory1771

spoliatory1790

predatorial1791

plunderous1797

spoliating1840

accipitral1842

despoiling1859

spoliative1875

predative1920

prehensile1927

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. xviii. 30 So saith Aristotle..that pasturage was before tillage, or fishing or fowling, or any other predatory art or cheuisance.

1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII (1629) 162 The King..did much exaggerate both the Malice, and the cruell Predatory Warre lately made by the King of Scotland.

1673 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd II. 30 It is a prædatory course of life.

1702 G. Burnet 2nd Pt. Present State Jacobitism Eng. 8 Predatory punishments..that devour a Man and his Family, and which exceed..the nature of the Crime.

1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1869) III. lxiv. 611 Necessity and revenge might justify his prædatory excursions by sea and land.

1803 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) II. 203 The Marhattas have long boasted that they would carry on a predatory war against us.

1878 G. F. Maclear Celts i. 9 They for a time indulged their predatory instincts unchecked.

1927 F. M. Thrasher Gang iv. xx. 415 There is in Chicago..an ‘underworld’, an area of life and activity..largely given over to predatory activities and the exploitation of the baser human appetites and passions.

1956 G. Tucker Tecumseh v. 56 An early predatory expedition into Virginia in the autumn of 1791 had a distinct military purpose.

1989 Times (Nexis) 6 July Brazilian scientists recently revealed that predatory logging and slash-and-burn agriculture had razed 48,000 square miles of forest last year.

b. Of a person: given to, or living by, plunder or marauding; ruthlessly exploitative, acquisitive, or rapacious (in later use esp. with regard to sexual relations). Of a manner, look, personal trait, etc.: characteristic or suggestive of such a person.

ΚΠ

1650 R. Stapleton tr. F. Strada De Bello Belgico vii. 73 The predatory Fleet very much increased and constantly victorious.

1664 J. Howell tr. J. Nadányi Florus Hungaricus 118 The Bohemian War was ended with the same felicity, by Sebastian Rozgonius, who hunted those predatory Thieves out of their lurking places.

1705 tr. W. Bosman New Descr. Coast of Guinea 14 It was..inhabited by a Martial and Prædatory People, who very much annoy'd us with frequent Onsets.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1869) II. xxvi. 35 He recalled to their standard his predatory detachments.

1801 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) I. 367 A predatory and formidable race, the Mahrattas.

1840 Let. 6 July in Times 13 July 5/5 The roads of La Mancha have returned to their original state of insecurity, being everywhere infested with predatory gangs.

1882 Macmillan's Mag. 45 379 These have also suffered by the predatory fingers of petty larcenists.

1932 W. Faulkner Light in August viii. 162 Her smallness should have or might have protected her from the roving and predatory eyes of most men.

1949 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 7 Oct. 10 Barbara Stanwyck has come up with the statement that the vampy, predatory female makes a good wife.

1979 A. Fraser King Charles II (1980) II. vii. 103 Much care was taken to present the invaders as alien and predatory.

1996 Independent 31 Jan. ii. 6/6 It was partly a class thing (he found her upper-classness glamorous); partly her predatory approach, which overwhelmed him.

2005 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Jan. 56/3 Regan's critics say she's a self-dramatizer who's constantly portraying herself as a victim of predatory males.

†2. Harmful to health; debilitating, wasting, consuming. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [adjective]

fellc1330

undone1340

ruinous?a1439

violablea1470

perniciousc1475

destructive1490

confusible1502

destroying1535

exitiable1548

ruinate1562

peremptory1567

wrackful1578

slaughterous1582

ruinating1595

ruining1605

corrumpent1607

wracksome1608

in suds1611

destructory1614

poisonousa1616

wrakefulc1625

predatory1626

predatorious1641

demolishing1648

untwined1649

undoing1654

destructionable1656

destructful1659

mortal1670

wreckinga1677

fatal1692

quadrumanous1704

interdestructive1805

annihilatory1825

demolitionary1834

ruinatious1845

consumptive1860

thunderous1874

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §299 The Evils that come of Exercise, are:..that it maketh the Spirits more hot and predatory.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §318 The cause is, for that all exclusion of open air (which is ever predatory) maintaineth the body in his first freshness and moisture.

1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. ii. 32 Some sorts of it [sc. air] being as predatory and wastful of the body, as others again are comfortable and refreshing.

a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo iv, in Wks. (1721) III. 122 If of himself the Patient takes no Care, But runs into the Predatory Air The unadvisable Attempt he rues.

1751 R. Barton Lect. Nat. Philos. v. 137 That smell may be more easily preserved in a place from whence predatory air is excluded.

a. Of an animal: that preys on other animals, predacious, carnivorous.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > by eating habits > [adjective] > carnivorous > predatory

ravishingc1350

of reif1457

rapacious1647

predatory1668

predacious1713

raptorial1827

raptatory1836

raptatorial1857

1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. 165 I shall be content to suppose that those Animals which are now Prædatory were so from the beginning.

1755 A. Berthelson tr. E. Pontoppidan Nat. Hist. Norway i. vi. 153 Fish, of which some are predatory, living by slaughter.

1832 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 122 511 There can be little doubt that all the beaked spirivalves are predatory.

1861 G. F. Berkeley Eng. Sportsman xi. 185 They will fly from a dog or a predatory animal.

1925 Jrnl. Mammalogy 6 29 The larger predatory mammals..require for proper sustenance animal food in large quantities.

1996 Independent 5 Dec. i. 7/3 The great white shark is the largest known predatory fish.

b. Of or relating to predatory animals or predation.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > by eating habits > eating habits > [adjective] > predatory (of feeding)

predatory1781

raptorious1819

predacious1822

raptorial1839

1781 T. Pennant Genera of Birds (new ed.) 5 Butcher birds... The genus that connects the rapacious Birds and Pies; agreeing with the first in..its predatory life; with the last, in the form of the toes.

1884 A. Sedgwick & F. G. Heathcote tr. C. Claus Elem. Text-bk. Zool.: Protozoa to Insecta i. 562 The lower lip [of Libellulidæ] is modified to form a special predatory apparatus (the mask).

1975 Man 10 124 Nishida..reports on seven predatory episodes, involving killing, eating and carrying away prey species of suni, squirrel, mongoose, [etc.].

1997 G. S. Helfman et al. Diversity of Fishes xv. 246/2 Halfbeaks, despite their predatory appearance, use their elongate lower jaw to feed on floating pieces of sea grasses.

4. Of business or financial practices: unfairly competitive or exploitative, esp. in a manner designed to facilitate takeovers (cf. predator n. 3). Of a business: engaged in such practices. predatory pricing n. the setting of uneconomically low prices in order to damage one's competitors or put smaller rival companies out of business.

ΚΠ

1912 Trenton (New Jersey) Evening Times 6 Aug. Wrongs done by industrial corporations which are not monopolies,..such as..the elimination of competition by unfair or predatory practices.

1944 J. S. Bain in H. F. Williamson Growth Amer. Econ. (1947) xxx. 720 The adverse decisions..turned strongly on the evidence of oppression of competitors, predatory pricing tactics, and ‘intent’ to monopolize by the combinations in question.

1972 Mod. Law Rev. 35 i. 24 By enforcing the claims of credit grantors without inquiry into their legitimacy, the courts are promoting the marketing of goods on credit by fraudulent and predatory practices.

1975 Business Week 21 Apr. 114 Merrill Lynch will not, of course, slash commissions to drive out competitors; it is far too conscious of the rules about predatory pricing.

2002 Modern Maturity Feb. 32/2 A loan company is considered predatory..when it makes a loan that a borrower can't repay.

Derivatives

ˈpredatorily adv.

ΚΠ

1848 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Predatorily, in a predatory manner.

1857 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 217/1 Street-walking dogs would sneak in, predatorily minded and lured by the rank odours of the Wallachian kitchen.

1966 Amer. Lit. 38 118 The editors who would not use his stuff earlier now compete individualistically and predatorily for it.

2005 Sunday Independent (Ireland) (Nexis) 4 Sept. Tough, sassy and proud of her femininity and sexuality, predatorily nabbing a rich piece of eye candy who was apparently a fool for her.

ˈpredatoriness n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > spoliation or depredation > [noun] > quality of

predacity1839

predatoriness1890

predaciousness1900

1890 Cent. Dict. Predatoriness, the character of being predatory; inclination to prey or plunder.

1909 Westm. Gaz. 10 Feb. 2/2 Régime of Rapacity. Career of Confiscation. Period of Predatoriness.

1963 Times 7 Mar. 13/2 The techniques of power, of political manipulation, of the predatoriness of officialdom, become even more insidiously efficient.

2002 K. Knop Diversity & Self-determination in Internat. Law iv. 137 The picture of the original inhabitants that emerges..is one of vulnerability to the predatoriness of European traders and the spread of disease brought by the white races.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	predatory
释义	predatoryadj. Brit. /ˈprɛdət(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈprɛdəˌtɔri/ Forms: 1500s– predatory, 1600s–1700s praedatory. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin praedātōrius. Etymology: < classical Latin praedātōrius marauding, plundering, piratical < praedātor plunderer (see predator n.) + -ius , suffix forming adjectives; compare -ory suffix². 1. a. Of, relating to, of the nature of, or involving plunder, pillage, or ruthless exploitation. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > spoliation or depredation > [adjective] ravenousc1425 rapinous1484 polling1526 spoiling1565 predatory1589 pilling1590 spoilful1590 plundering1641 vulturian1659 predatitious1660 pillagingc1670 vulturine1721 predal1737 depredatory1771 spoliatory1790 predatorial1791 plunderous1797 spoliating1840 accipitral1842 despoiling1859 spoliative1875 predative1920 prehensile1927 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. xviii. 30 So saith Aristotle..that pasturage was before tillage, or fishing or fowling, or any other predatory art or cheuisance. 1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII (1629) 162 The King..did much exaggerate both the Malice, and the cruell Predatory Warre lately made by the King of Scotland. 1673 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd II. 30 It is a prædatory course of life. 1702 G. Burnet 2nd Pt. Present State Jacobitism Eng. 8 Predatory punishments..that devour a Man and his Family, and which exceed..the nature of the Crime. 1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1869) III. lxiv. 611 Necessity and revenge might justify his prædatory excursions by sea and land. 1803 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) II. 203 The Marhattas have long boasted that they would carry on a predatory war against us. 1878 G. F. Maclear Celts i. 9 They for a time indulged their predatory instincts unchecked. 1927 F. M. Thrasher Gang iv. xx. 415 There is in Chicago..an ‘underworld’, an area of life and activity..largely given over to predatory activities and the exploitation of the baser human appetites and passions. 1956 G. Tucker Tecumseh v. 56 An early predatory expedition into Virginia in the autumn of 1791 had a distinct military purpose. 1989 Times (Nexis) 6 July Brazilian scientists recently revealed that predatory logging and slash-and-burn agriculture had razed 48,000 square miles of forest last year. b. Of a person: given to, or living by, plunder or marauding; ruthlessly exploitative, acquisitive, or rapacious (in later use esp. with regard to sexual relations). Of a manner, look, personal trait, etc.: characteristic or suggestive of such a person. ΚΠ 1650 R. Stapleton tr. F. Strada De Bello Belgico vii. 73 The predatory Fleet very much increased and constantly victorious. 1664 J. Howell tr. J. Nadányi Florus Hungaricus 118 The Bohemian War was ended with the same felicity, by Sebastian Rozgonius, who hunted those predatory Thieves out of their lurking places. 1705 tr. W. Bosman New Descr. Coast of Guinea 14 It was..inhabited by a Martial and Prædatory People, who very much annoy'd us with frequent Onsets. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1869) II. xxvi. 35 He recalled to their standard his predatory detachments. 1801 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) I. 367 A predatory and formidable race, the Mahrattas. 1840 Let. 6 July in Times 13 July 5/5 The roads of La Mancha have returned to their original state of insecurity, being everywhere infested with predatory gangs. 1882 Macmillan's Mag. 45 379 These have also suffered by the predatory fingers of petty larcenists. 1932 W. Faulkner Light in August viii. 162 Her smallness should have or might have protected her from the roving and predatory eyes of most men. 1949 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 7 Oct. 10 Barbara Stanwyck has come up with the statement that the vampy, predatory female makes a good wife. 1979 A. Fraser King Charles II (1980) II. vii. 103 Much care was taken to present the invaders as alien and predatory. 1996 Independent 31 Jan. ii. 6/6 It was partly a class thing (he found her upper-classness glamorous); partly her predatory approach, which overwhelmed him. 2005 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Jan. 56/3 Regan's critics say she's a self-dramatizer who's constantly portraying herself as a victim of predatory males. †2. Harmful to health; debilitating, wasting, consuming. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [adjective] fellc1330 undone1340 ruinous?a1439 violablea1470 perniciousc1475 destructive1490 confusible1502 destroying1535 exitiable1548 ruinate1562 peremptory1567 wrackful1578 slaughterous1582 ruinating1595 ruining1605 corrumpent1607 wracksome1608 in suds1611 destructory1614 poisonousa1616 wrakefulc1625 predatory1626 predatorious1641 demolishing1648 untwined1649 undoing1654 destructionable1656 destructful1659 mortal1670 wreckinga1677 fatal1692 quadrumanous1704 interdestructive1805 annihilatory1825 demolitionary1834 ruinatious1845 consumptive1860 thunderous1874 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §299 The Evils that come of Exercise, are:..that it maketh the Spirits more hot and predatory. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §318 The cause is, for that all exclusion of open air (which is ever predatory) maintaineth the body in his first freshness and moisture. 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. ii. 32 Some sorts of it [sc. air] being as predatory and wastful of the body, as others again are comfortable and refreshing. a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo iv, in Wks. (1721) III. 122 If of himself the Patient takes no Care, But runs into the Predatory Air The unadvisable Attempt he rues. 1751 R. Barton Lect. Nat. Philos. v. 137 That smell may be more easily preserved in a place from whence predatory air is excluded. 3. a. Of an animal: that preys on other animals, predacious, carnivorous. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by eating habits > [adjective] > carnivorous > predatory ravishingc1350 of reif1457 rapacious1647 predatory1668 predacious1713 raptorial1827 raptatory1836 raptatorial1857 1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. 165 I shall be content to suppose that those Animals which are now Prædatory were so from the beginning. 1755 A. Berthelson tr. E. Pontoppidan Nat. Hist. Norway i. vi. 153 Fish, of which some are predatory, living by slaughter. 1832 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 122 511 There can be little doubt that all the beaked spirivalves are predatory. 1861 G. F. Berkeley Eng. Sportsman xi. 185 They will fly from a dog or a predatory animal. 1925 Jrnl. Mammalogy 6 29 The larger predatory mammals..require for proper sustenance animal food in large quantities. 1996 Independent 5 Dec. i. 7/3 The great white shark is the largest known predatory fish. b. Of or relating to predatory animals or predation. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by eating habits > eating habits > [adjective] > predatory (of feeding) predatory1781 raptorious1819 predacious1822 raptorial1839 1781 T. Pennant Genera of Birds (new ed.) 5 Butcher birds... The genus that connects the rapacious Birds and Pies; agreeing with the first in..its predatory life; with the last, in the form of the toes. 1884 A. Sedgwick & F. G. Heathcote tr. C. Claus Elem. Text-bk. Zool.: Protozoa to Insecta i. 562 The lower lip [of Libellulidæ] is modified to form a special predatory apparatus (the mask). 1975 Man 10 124 Nishida..reports on seven predatory episodes, involving killing, eating and carrying away prey species of suni, squirrel, mongoose, [etc.]. 1997 G. S. Helfman et al. Diversity of Fishes xv. 246/2 Halfbeaks, despite their predatory appearance, use their elongate lower jaw to feed on floating pieces of sea grasses. 4. Of business or financial practices: unfairly competitive or exploitative, esp. in a manner designed to facilitate takeovers (cf. predator n. 3). Of a business: engaged in such practices. predatory pricing n. the setting of uneconomically low prices in order to damage one's competitors or put smaller rival companies out of business. ΚΠ 1912 Trenton (New Jersey) Evening Times 6 Aug. Wrongs done by industrial corporations which are not monopolies,..such as..the elimination of competition by unfair or predatory practices. 1944 J. S. Bain in H. F. Williamson Growth Amer. Econ. (1947) xxx. 720 The adverse decisions..turned strongly on the evidence of oppression of competitors, predatory pricing tactics, and ‘intent’ to monopolize by the combinations in question. 1972 Mod. Law Rev. 35 i. 24 By enforcing the claims of credit grantors without inquiry into their legitimacy, the courts are promoting the marketing of goods on credit by fraudulent and predatory practices. 1975 Business Week 21 Apr. 114 Merrill Lynch will not, of course, slash commissions to drive out competitors; it is far too conscious of the rules about predatory pricing. 2002 Modern Maturity Feb. 32/2 A loan company is considered predatory..when it makes a loan that a borrower can't repay. Derivatives ˈpredatorily adv. ΚΠ 1848 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Predatorily, in a predatory manner. 1857 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 217/1 Street-walking dogs would sneak in, predatorily minded and lured by the rank odours of the Wallachian kitchen. 1966 Amer. Lit. 38 118 The editors who would not use his stuff earlier now compete individualistically and predatorily for it. 2005 Sunday Independent (Ireland) (Nexis) 4 Sept. Tough, sassy and proud of her femininity and sexuality, predatorily nabbing a rich piece of eye candy who was apparently a fool for her. ˈpredatoriness n. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > spoliation or depredation > [noun] > quality of predacity1839 predatoriness1890 predaciousness1900 1890 Cent. Dict. Predatoriness, the character of being predatory; inclination to prey or plunder. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 10 Feb. 2/2 Régime of Rapacity. Career of Confiscation. Period of Predatoriness. 1963 Times 7 Mar. 13/2 The techniques of power, of political manipulation, of the predatoriness of officialdom, become even more insidiously efficient. 2002 K. Knop Diversity & Self-determination in Internat. Law iv. 137 The picture of the original inhabitants that emerges..is one of vulnerability to the predatoriness of European traders and the spread of disease brought by the white races. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1589
随便看	to reduce to the ranks to reek to the sea to reel a person's pirny to reel pirny to reflourish to care for to reflourish to care for someone to refuse its service to refuse their service to regain one's feet to regard one's navel to reign supreme to rein back to rein in to rein up to reinvent the wheel to relieve guard to relieve one's feelings to relieve the guard to relieve the trenches to remain to be seen to remit the knowledge of to remove the veil from a person's eyes to rend the air to rend the welkin to render a reason