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单词 direption
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direptionn.

Etymology: < Latin dīreptiōn-em, noun of action < dīripĕre to tear asunder, lay waste, snatch away, < dī-, dis- asunder + rapĕre to snatch, tear away; compare 16th cent. French direption (Godefroy).
Obsolete.
1. The sacking or pillaging of a town, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > sacking, raiding, or looting > [noun]
harryingc900
harrowingc1000
skeckinga1387
pillagea1393
skickinga1400
forayingc1400
hership1487
direption1528
sackc1550
sacking1560
sackage1577
saccaging1585
picory1591
reprisalc1595
boot-haling1598
booty-haling1611
rapture?1611
ravage1611
prize-taking1633
plunder1643
booting1651
hen roost1762
ravagement1766
raiding1785
loot1839
looting1842
1528 S. Gardiner in N. Pocock Rec. Reformation (1870) I. l. 118 Such as before dwelt in Rome, and in the direption lost their substance.
c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. v. viii. f. 59v/1 Calphurnius nochtwithstandyng thir direptionis went forthwart with his army.
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. vii. i. 281/2 The whole Countrey by these continuall direptions, was vtterly depriued of the staffe of food.
1660 J. Gauden Mem. Bp. Brounrigg 203 The arrears..due to him before the direption and depraedation.
1844 G. S. Faber Sacred Cal. Prophecy (ed. 2) III. v. iv. 133 The direption and spoliation of the Empire.
2. The action of snatching away or dragging apart violently.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > tearing or tearing apart > [noun]
tatteringc1380
rendinga1398
rifta1400
rentingc1405
ripping1463
direption1483
outriving1488
dilaceration1545
raving1553
dilaniation1569
divulsion1603
discission1628
discerption1645
tear1666
rent1753
shredding1954
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 76/2 For we haue not obeyed thy comandementis, therfore we ben betaken in to dyrepcion, captyuyte, deth.
?1550 J. Bale Apol. agaynste Papyst 21 A bonde indispensable by autorite of the churche, and a dyrepcion or sackynge of matrimony.
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Direption, a violent taking away.
1650 E. Ashmole Arcanum in A. Dee Fasciculus Chem. (ed. 3) 238/2 Of the conflict of the Eagle and the Lion..the more Eagles, the shorter the Battaile, and the direption of the Lyon will more readily follow.
1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xlviii. 393 Direption, tearing and rending asunder of their Joynts.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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