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† latrociny Obs.
Also 5 -synie, -cynye, 7 -cinie.
[ad. L. latrōcini-um highway-robbery, band of robbers, f. latro: see next. Cf. larceny.]
1. Highway-robbery, brigandage, freebooting, plundering.
c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode iii. xvii. (1869) 144 Coutte bourse it is cleped, and latrosynie the defamede. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 263 These..possessed the Mountains and Desert places of Thessaly, being given to all manner of Latrociny and Deprædation. 1619Purchas Microcosmus xlvii. 438 Publike Latrocinies, Rapes, Murthers, Hell vpon Earth. 1657Thornley tr. Longus' Daphnis & Chloe 40 Escaping two dangers at once, ship⁓wreck and latrociny.
2. A band of robbers. In quots. transf.
1474Caxton Chesse iv. i. (1860) I viij b, A royame wyth out habundaunce of goodes..may better be callyd a latrocynye or a nest of theuys than a royame. c1643Maximes Unfolded 35 Because the faction sought by force to prevaile, it was aptly called a Latrocinie. 1732Stackhouse Hist. Bible iii. v. (1752) I. 389 When..Oppression rul'd, and the Government was turn'd into a mere Latrociny. |