Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a piratical manner; by piracy.
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- adverb In a
piratical manner.
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- adverb in a piratical manner
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He had been convicted of “piratically confining and detaining negroes with intent of making them slaves.”
Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007
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He had been convicted of “piratically confining and detaining negroes with intent of making them slaves.”
Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007
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He had been convicted of “piratically confining and detaining negroes with intent of making them slaves.”
Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007
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He had been convicted of “piratically confining and detaining negroes with intent of making them slaves.”
Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007
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We were then placed on board the Leviathan hulk, and remained there until shipped in the Lady Jane, which was chartered, with convicts, for Van Diemen's Land, in order to be tried in the colony, where the offence was committed, for piratically seizing the brig Osprey, and arrived here on the 15th
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He was charged with piratically seizing the brig Osprey, and he urged that the brig Osprey, having been built by convicts at Macquarie Harbour, and never entered in any shipping list, could not be said to be "piratically seized", in the strict meaning of the term.
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“They have” [Rumour is speaking] “the option of an unwitnessed reef, sensationally, romantically rich, or know of a piratically and solemnly secreted hoard.”
My Tropic Isle 2003
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A couple of red-haired Achaeans swaggered piratically by.
Time Patrolman Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1983
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The blaspheming pilot and five men were sent off with the vessel, but whether the craft foundered in Lake Huron or was piratically visited by the Indians, she was no more heard of.
The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 Charles Roger
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