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Definition of Sackage
1. n. The act of taking by storm and pillaging; sack.
Definition of Sackage
1. Noun. The instance or action of sacking, pillaging or looting. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sackage
1. the plundering of a city [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sackage
Literary usage of Sackage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life by John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1865)
"... indignation conceived against the family for conducting the Spanish army
against their country, and being the cause of the barbarous sackage of Prato. ..."
2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"If it be left to the spoil and sackage of common persons, if the love and service
of so many nations be ..."
3. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"POKE plunder, ni Referring to Oie action: pillage; spec, rapine, ravin, sack,
sackage (rare), harrying, prey (archaic), spoil, despoliation, spoliation, ..."
4. Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings edited by John Denison Champlin, Charles Callahan Perkins (1887)
"... A Scholar, Kitchen Interior, Museum, Vienna ; Nativity, Musical
Entertainment (1650), Liechtenstein Gallery, ib. ; sackage of a House, Musical Trio, ..."
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