2. Verb. (third-person singular of rape) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rapes
1. rape [v] - See also: rape
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rapes
Literary usage of Rapes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Prose (1137-1890) by John Matthews Manly (1909)
"The rapes the n weren i-cast to him ... thet weren i-sende ut of thes kinges huse
for to binden the rapes mid" bi-tacnet" the halie ..."
2. Sussex Archaeological Collections Relating to the History and Antiquities of by Sussex Archaeological Society (1888)
"The rapes and their Looking at the map annexed to the " Sussex Domesday Book,"
and eeing ... It would more naturally appear probable that the rapes had a ..."
3. The Statutes at Large from the Magna Charta, to the End of the Eleventh by Great Britain (1763)
"... mayors and bailiffs elected in their leets, law- days, rapes and court-barons,
to be hereafter Irakien before them, or any of them, ..."
4. A Journal Or Historical Account of the Life, Travels, Sufferings, Christian by George Fox, William Penn, Margaret Askew Fell Fox (1839)
"«his I* and defile the minds of the simple, and to make rapes upon the virgin '
minds. But as they receive the heavenly wisdom, by which all things 4 were ..."
5. The Modern Husbandman, Or, The Practice of Farming by William Ellis (1744)
"OJ'the great Service a Crop of rapes is to a Farmer in April. ... is the Cafe of
many to be without any other at this Time of the Year than this of rapes, ..."
6. Ecclesiastical Law by Richard Burn, Simon Fraser (1797)
"And all rapes are commonly excepted out of the a£Js of general pardon. Rate for
the repair of the church. ..."
7. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: To which is by John Jamieson (1880)
"Germ, ftl»», petra, rapes ; as expressive of the character of the disease, like
Su.-O. etrn, Belg. /i, E. «tone. FELT GRAVEL, the sandy gravel. ..."
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