RAPE
\ɹˈe͡ɪp], \ɹˈeɪp], \ɹ_ˈeɪ_p]\
Definitions of RAPE
- 1910 - Black's Law Dictionary (2nd edition)
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1900 - A dictionary of medicine and the allied sciences
- 1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1895 - Glossary of terms and phrases
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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In criminal law. The unlawful carnal knowledge of a woman by a man forcibly and against her will. Code Ga.
By Henry Campbell Black
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r[=a]p, n. the act of seizing and carrying away by force: carnal knowledge of a woman without her consent.--adj. RAPE'FUL, given to violence or lust. [M. E. rapen, to haste, a variant of rappen, to seize, confused with L. rap[)e]re, to snatch.]
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r[=a]p, n. a division of the county of Sussex, greater than the hundred. [Ice. hreppr, district.]
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r[=a]p, n. a plant nearly allied to the turnip, cultivated for its herbage and oil-producing seeds: cole-seed.--ns. RAPE'-CAKE, cake made of the refuse, after the oil has been expressed from the rape-seed; RAPE'-OIL, oil obtained from rape-seed; RAPE'-SEED, the seed of the rape, cole-seed. [Through Fr. from L. rapa, rapum, a turnip; cog. with Gr. rhapys.]
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r[=a]p, n. the stalk and skin of grapes.
By Thomas Davidson
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Brassica napus, Stuprum.
By Robley Dunglison
By Alexander Duane
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Take by force (poet.); ravish, force, violate, (woman). (N.) carrying of by force (poet.); ravishing or violation of a woman. [Latin]
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Any of six administrative divisions of Sussex.
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Plant grown as food for sheep; plant cultivated for its seed from which oil is made, coleseed; wild r., charlock; r.-cake, r.-seed pressed into flat shape after extraction of oil& used as manure; r.-oil, made from r.-seed& used as lubricant& in making soap& india-rubber. [Latin]
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Refuse of grapes after wine-making used in making vinegar; vessel used in vinegar-making. [French]
By Sir Augustus Henry
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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[Gr.] A territorial division. Sussex is the only county divided into rapes, each containing three or four hundreds. The Norw. repp denotes a parish district.
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[Gr.] The refuse of raisins after making wine.
By Henry Percy Smith
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n. [German, Dutch, Latin] Sexual intercourse with a woman against her will.
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n. [Latin, Greek] A plant of several species, belonging to the cabbage tribe, two of which are much cultivated for their roots, and also for their seeds, from which oil is extracted ;-the French turnipe.