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† diˈreption Obs.
[ad. L. dīreptiōn-em, n. of action f. dīripĕre to tear asunder, lay waste, snatch away, f. dī-, dis- asunder + rapĕre to snatch, tear away; cf. 16th c. F. direption (Godef.).]
1. The sacking or pillaging of a town, etc.
1528Gardiner in Pocock Rec. Ref. I. l. 118 Such as before dwelt in Rome, and in the direption lost their substance. 1536Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) I. 181 Calphurnius, nochtwithstanding thir direptionis, went forthwart with his army. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. vii. i. 191 The whole Country by these continuall direptions, was vtterly depriued of the staffe of food. 1660Gauden Brownrig 203 The arrears..due to him before the direption and depraedation. 1828G. S. Faber Sacr. Cal. Prophecy (1844) III. 133 The direption and spoliation of the Empire.
2. The action of snatching away or dragging apart violently.
1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 76/2 For we haue not obeyed thy comandementis, therfore we ben betaken in to dyrepcion, captyuyte, deth. 1550Bale Apol. 21 A bonde indispensable by autorite of the churche, and a dyrepcion or sackynge of matrimony. 1623Cockeram, Direption, a violent taking away. 1650Ashmole Chym. Collect., Arcanum (ed. 3) 238/2 Of the conflict of the Eagle and the Lion..the more Eagles, the shorter the Battaile, and the direption of the Lyon will more readily follow. a1693Urquhart Rabelais iii. xlviii. 393 Direption, tearing and rending asunder of their Joynts. |
