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Definition of Depredatory
1. a. Tending or designed to depredate; characterized by depredation; plundering; as, a depredatory incursion.
Definition of Depredatory
1. Adjective. Tending or designed to depredate. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Depredatory
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Depredatory
Literary usage of Depredatory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Naval Chronicle by Stephen Jones, James Stanier Clarke (1799)
"... to their friends the receivers, who being under no legal restraint, .immediately
cover and protect the depredatory from hazard of punishment. ..."
2. The Historical Register of the United States by Thomas H. Palmer (1816)
"... yet the humanity and good sense displayed in the acknowledgment " that no good
could result from depredatory warfare, which can only have -a tendency to ..."
3. A System of Geography, Popular and Scientific: Or A Physical, Political, and by James Bell (1832)
"These depredatory excursions are sometimes conducted What ie the matter with you ?
I am siik Are you in health ? ..."
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