单词 | direption |
释义 | † direptionn. 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). < n.1483 |
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