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Definition of Depredating
1. depredate [v] - See also: depredate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Depredating
Literary usage of Depredating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Defences to Crime: The Adjudged Cases on Defences to Crime by John Davison Lawson (1885)
"... and if the depredating animal is thereby caught in a steel trap and mutilated,
it would not be needless torture or mutilation under the statute. ..."
2. Journal of the House of Representatives by Texas Legislature. House (1921)
"(2) Amend by adding after the word ''therewith," and before the word "and," the
following: "and providing for hunting and trapping wild depredating animals ..."
3. Elements of International Law by Henry Wheaton (1866)
"Piracy is defined by the text-writers to be the offence of depredating on the
seas without being authorized by any sovereign State, or with commissions from ..."
4. Transactions of the American Entomological Society. by American Entomological Society (1889)
"It occurs in Missouri, according to Mr. CV Riley, depredating ou wheat. ...
I find it here depredating on various foreign nuts in the shells of which it ..."
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