单词 | raptor |
释义 | raptorn.ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.a1398 |
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