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▪ I. maraud, n. rare.|məˈrɔːd|
[a. F. maraude, f. marauder: see maraud v.]
The action of raiding or plundering. Also in phr. on the maraud: intent on plundering.
1837W. Irving Capt. Bonneville II. 151 It was the hour for Indian maraud. 1839–40― Wolfert's R. (1855) 9 He had an Indian's sagacity in discovering when the enemy was on the maraud. 1884St. Nicholas XI. 534 Certain neighboring tribes that make maraud upon them.
▪ II. maraud, v.|məˈrɔːd|
Also 8 marode.
[a. F. maraud-er, f. maraud rogue, vagabond.
Cf. Sp. merodear to maraud, merode masc., act of marauding; also G. marodiren to maraud, marode adj., worn out with marching (said orig. of stragglers belonging to an army), marode fem., act of marauding, marodebruder, marodereiter straggler, deserter. The Fr. words were adopted in German in the 17th c., and were punningly associated with the name of Count Mérode, an imperialist general in the Thirty Years' War, whose troops were notorious for want of discipline.]
1. intr. To make a raid for the purpose of plundering. Const. on, upon.
1711Addison Spect. No. 165 ⁋5 They met with a Party of French that had been Marauding. 1711S. Centlivre Marplot i. i, Ask your Brother, Don Lopez, who will have it that you send your eyes a maroding for English forage. 1813Scott Trierm. ii. i, The Saxon stern, the pagan Dane, Maraud on Britain's shores again. 1856Dove Logic Chr. Faith iv. ii. §5. 229 He [the Arab] will no longer maraud, because..he is placing himself in danger of being marauded upon.
b. transf. To go about pilfering.
1770Monthly Rev. 132 A flea..Upon a taylor's neck was taken Marauding for a dinner. 1816Scott Antiq. xxxiv, Juno—who, though formally banished from the parlour, failed not to maraud about the out-settlements. 1844Ld. Brougham A. Lunel I. v. 138 He was an old offender, probably come from Marseilles to maraud at the Candlemas fair of Nismes.
2. trans. To plunder; to harry.
1829W. Irving Chron. Granada I. xii. 112 The tract of country they intended to maraud was far in the Moorish territories. 1894G. Moore Esther Waters 321 One is always marauding the other's territory. |