direption

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  1. A plundering or ravaging; robbery. This lord for some direptions being cast Into close prison. Heywood, Hierarchy of Angels, p. 515. You shall “suffer with joy the direption of your goods,” because the best part of your substance is in heaven. J. Bradford, Letters (Parker Soc., 1853), II. 126.

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  • Or how little strange should it appear to any rational man, if a lechering rogue, together with his mole-catching abettor, be entrapped in the flagrant act of suborning his daughter, and stealing her out of his house, though herself consent thereto, that the father in such a case of stain and infamy by them brought upon his family, should put them both to a shameful death, and cast their carcasses upon dunghills to be devoured and eaten up by dogs and swine, or otherwise fling them a little further off to the direption, tearing, and rending asunder of their joints and members by the wild beasts of the field —  Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3
 

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  1. from Latin direptio (n-), from diripere, past participle direptus, tear asunder or away, ravage, from di- for dis-, asunder, + rapere, snatch. Cf. correption.
 

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