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accipitrine, a. Zool.|ækˈsɪpɪtraɪn|
[a. Fr. accipitrin-e, f. L. accipiter: see -ine1. Cf. aquiline.]
Of the falcon kind; hawk-like.
1838Pen. Cycl. XI. 513/2 M. Latreille places the Secretary in his second family of the Diurnal tribe of Rapacious birds, viz. the Accipitrine. 1872Ruskin Eagle's Nest §11 The difference between man and man is in the quickness and quality, the accipitrine intensity, the olfactory choice, of his νους. |