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单词 pread
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preadv.

Forms: 1500s prede, 1500s preid, 1600s pread.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin praedārī.
Etymology: < classical Latin praedārī to plunder, spoil < praeda prede n. Compare earlier prey v. and the Romance forms cited at that entry.
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To plunder, rob. Also intransitive.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > spoliation or depredation > despoil or prey upon [verb (transitive)]
reaveOE
stripa1225
pill?c1225
robc1225
peela1250
despoil1297
raimc1300
spoilc1330
spoila1340
to pull a finch (also pigeon, plover, etc.)c1387
despoil1393
preya1400
spoila1400
spulyiea1400
unspoila1400
riflec1400
poll1490
to pill and poll1528
to poll and pill1528
exspoila1530
pilyie1539
devour?1542
plume1571
rive1572
bepill1574
fleece1575
to prey over1576
pread1577
disvaledge1598
despoliate1607
to make spoil of1613
expilate1624
to peel and poll1641
depredate1651
violatea1657
disvalise1672
to pick feathers off (a person)1677
to make stroy of1682
spoliate1699
pilfer1714
snabble1725
rump1815
vampire1832
sweat1847
ploat1855
vampirize1888
1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande iii. f. 12/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I The inhabitantes being dayly and hourely molested and preded [1587 preided] by their prouling Mountaine neighbours.

Derivatives

preading adj. and n. Obsolete
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1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. iii. vii. 92 To..sit still without preading, in a wast and desart countrey.
1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xiv. vi. 12 Crewes and troupes of preading brigands [L. praedatorios globos].
1632 P. Holland tr. Xenophon Cyrupædia 66 Some Chaldees..that live by preading and robbing.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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