Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who recaptures; one who takes a prize which had been previously taken.
Wiktionary
- n. One who recaptures, or takes a prize that had been previously taken.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who recaptures; one who takes a prize which had been previously taken.
Examples
“If we admit that he may have become so, there would be no further perfect and external obligation on the _recaptor_ to restore property which has become that of the enemy; and on which the first proprietor has lost all claim.”
“The costs and damages paid to the recaptor are termed Salvage.”
“Indian, or other person from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed by _another citizen_, specific restitution shall be adjudged to the claimant, whether the original capture shall have been made on land or water, a reasonable salvage being paid by the claimant to the recaptor, not exceeding one-fourth part of the value of such labor or service, to be estimated according to the laws of the State”
“We presume not to dispute the wisdom of the ordinance of the King, which gives to the recaptor from a pirate only one third; because we know not the species of pirates which was then in contemplation, nor the motives of that regulation.”
The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. I
“Dr. Shaul, the study's senior author, said the new molecule is a unique selective estrogen recaptor modulator (SERM).”
“Indian, or other person, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed by _a State or a citizen of a State_, specific restitution shall be adjudged to the claimant, whether the original capture shall have been made on land or water, _and without regard to the time of possession by the enemy_, a reasonable salvage being paid by the claimant to the recaptor, not exceeding 1-4th of the value of such labor or service, to be estimated according to the laws of the”
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R.L. Stevenson - An Inland Voyage
Words that I had to look up, or that I liked, from Robert Louis Stevenson's travelogue 'An Inland Voyage'.
recaptor, befrogged, burgee, emulous, viand, gymnosophist, amphora, sublunary, landau, flibbertigibbet, jeremiad, bastinado and 27 more...
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