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单词 raptor
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raptorn.

Brit. /ˈraptə/, U.S. /ˈræptər/
Forms: Middle English raptour, 1500s– raptor.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin raptor.
Etymology: < classical Latin raptor plunderer, robber, ravisher, abductor < rapt- , past participial stem of rapere to seize (see rape v.2) + -or -or suffix. With sense 3a compare scientific Latin Raptores Raptores n. In sense 3b after scientific Latin Velociraptor (1924) and similar genus names.
1. A plunderer, a robber. Obsolete.In quot. a1398 figurative: a goshawk (cf. sense 3a).
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > robber > spoiler or plunderer > [noun]
riflera1350
ravenerc1384
pillerc1385
preyerc1390
raptora1398
peelera1425
despoiler1467
spulyierc1475
pillardc1485
ruggerc1485
pollera1513
booty-fellow1530
spoiler1535
caterpillar1541
kitea1556
ransacker?1576
predator1581
lurdan1589
worm1591
scraper1598
pillager?1611
ravager1611
bird of preya1616
depredator1626
plunderer1639
expilator1658
shark1713
depredationist1828
spoliator1831
rapiner1843
ravisher1851
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 143 The Goshauk... For þe takynge of oþir foules and for pray he is I-clepid aucipiter and raptour and rauyschere [L. raptor].
a1460 tr. Dicts & Sayings Philosophers (Helm.) (1999) 163 A good gouernoure shulde..hath of his people rightwosly and nat..by..vyolence..if the kinge be nat rightwose, he nys not kinge but a vyolente man and a raptour [1450 Scrope a violent rauenour].
1566 T. Becon New Postil sig. b. iiiiv If ye doo mowe, where ye dyd not sowe, so are ye not pastors, but raptors.., yea very playne theues.
1667 E. Waterhouse Short Narr. Fire London 32 They that took away goods in a sort wrongfully will prove themselves preservers not raptors.
1720 J. Johnson Coll. Eccl. Laws Church of Eng. II. H h j b Some Raptors rather than Rectors of Churches.
2. A ravisher, a rapist; an abductor. Now rare.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > loss of chastity > [noun] > defilement of chastity or woman > forcible > one who rapes
ravishera1325
ravenerc1390
violator?a1475
rapter1582
abuser1584
raptor1592
rapist1869
raper1878
1592 A. Fraunce 3rd Pt. Countesse of Pembrokes Yuychurch f. 24 v Stygian raptor [of]..a pray and prise so worthy the taking.
1609 T. Heywood Troia Britanica xiv. xcv Oh! had the Raptor in his cradle dide, Millions of liues had in his death beene sau'd.
1670 T. Blount Νομο-λεξικον: Law-dict. at Rape The offender is called Raptor, a Ravisher, and in Bractons time he was punished with the loss of his Eyes and Stones.
1709 J. Johnson Clergy-man's Vade Mecum: Pt. II 30 If the virgin had been engaged to another,..the raptor had been guilty of adultery.
1742 R. North & M. North Life F. North 73 [He] ran away with her, and carried her over into France, where..the Abuse was discovered, and the Raptor seised.
1884 W. E. Addis & T. Arnold Catholic Dict. 436/1 The councils..prohibit subsequent marriage between the raptor and his victim.
1903 Amer. Law Reg. 51 478 It became increasingly difficult to deflower a woman in the open highway, and the raptor accordingly changed his tactics.
1975 Daily Tel. 12 Aug. 12 What I had in mind was the ruling that there was no rape provided the raptor believed..that the woman consented.
3.
a. A bird of prey. Also figurative. Cf. Raptores n.
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the world > animals > birds > bird of prey > [noun]
bird of prey1340
fowl of chase1340
fowl of prey1340
fowl of ravin1340
accipitera1398
mittell1457
mittane?a1513
esalon1572
boyter1578
talenter1620
prey-bird1777
raptor1783
flesh-bird1796
raptorial1856
air pirate1885
1783 tr. Virgil Aeneid vii. 55 in New Transl. Virgil's Eclogues Like him, The Raptor with the first fair Gales, Will snatch the Prey, and spread his flying Sails.
1862 R. F. Burton City of Saints (ed. 2) vi. 280 Of the raptors the principal are the red-tailed hawk.., the sharp-shinned hawk.., the sparrow-hawk, and the vulturine turkey-buzzard.
1873 W. Cory Lett. & Jrnls. (1897) 324 We wake the echoes of the rocks so well stocked with raptors.
1892 W. H. Hudson Naturalist in La Plata 93 Some raptors never attack birds, others only occasionally.
1933 Condor 35 19 (heading) Food habits of Southern Wisconsin raptors.
1963 D. P. Mannix All Creatures Great & Small vi. 86 Raptors (birds of prey) do not have the nervous, active minds of the Corvidæ.
1974 Sci. Amer. Dec. 156/3 A cruel human raptor..boasted of killing golden eagles with a sawed-off shotgun as he flew beside them.
1991 J. Hadwick Owl Light ii. 56 The peregrine was taken up country to a falconry and raptor breeding centre.
b. A dromaeosaurid dinosaur.
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the world > animals > reptiles > extinct reptiles and dinosaurs > [noun] > Sauria > order Saurischia > member of order Theropoda
Archaeopteryx1862
theropod1891
Ornithomimus1896
deinonychosaur1969
raptor1990
1990 M. Crichton Jurassic Park 119 Charging raptors covered the ten yards to the fence with shocking speed.
1995 D. Carey & J. I. Kirkland First Frontier iii. xxvi. 261 Raptors, sir. Generally accepted as the most viciously efficient of prehistoric hunters on land.
2005 Washington Post 13 Oct. a3/1 The newly discovered fossil, of a rooster-size carnivore known as a dromaeosaur,..is the oldest raptor ever found in the southern continent.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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