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   Rapacious , a. [L. rapax, -acis, from rapere to seize and carry off, to snatch away. See Rapid.]
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   Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force. “ The downfall of the rapacious and licentious Knights Templar.”
   Motley.
   
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   Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals seized by violence; as, a tiger is a rapacious animal; a rapacious bird.
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   Avaricious; grasping; extortionate; also, greedy; ravenous; voracious; as, rapacious usurers; a rapacious appetite.
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   [Thy Lord] redeem thee quite from Death's rapacious claim
   Milton.
   
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   Syn. -- Greedy; grasping; ravenous; voracious.
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   -- Ra*pa"cious*ly, adv. -- Ra*pa"cious*ness, n.
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