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Definition of Depredated
1. depredate [v] - See also: depredate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Depredated
Literary usage of Depredated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Brief History of the Lower Rio Grande Valley by Frank Cushman Pierce (1917)
"... Indians who, associated with the worst element of the Mexicans, depredated
the border even as late as 1874. GEN. JOE SHELBY: But we cannot resist the ..."
2. Collections of the Illinois State Historical Library by Illinois State Historical Library (1909)
"You are desired to examine the lands and to report to me whether the lands have
been depredated on, and if so by whom and to what extent ..."
3. Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856: From Gales and by United States Congress, Thomas Hart Benton (1858)
"When our national rights had been violated; when our commerce had been depredated;
when the vessels of belligerent powers, ..."
4. The History of Economics by Henry Dunning Macleod (1896)
"If the Coinage is in a depredated State, to determine whether the Exchange ...
Hence a depredated Coinage necessarily produces a Rise of the Market Price of ..."
5. Transactions (1869)
""In the larva state, the Colorado potato-bug is extensively depredated on in
Illinois, Missouri, and Iowa, by the spined soldier-bug ..."
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