2. To plunder; to pillage completely. Their vow is made To ransack Troy. Shak.
3. To violate; to ravish; to defiour. [Obs.] Rich spoil of ransacked chastity. Spenser.
RANSACK
Ran"sack, v. i.
Defn: To make a thorough search.
To ransack in the tas [heap] of bodies dead. Chaucer.
RANSACK
Ran"sack, n.
Defn: The act of ransacking, or state of being ransacked; pillage.
[R.]
Even your father's house Shall not be free fromransack. J. Webster.
RANSOM
Ran"som, n. Etym: [OE. raunson, raunsoun, OF. rançon, raençon,
raançon, F. rançon, fr. L. redemptio, fr. redimere to redeem. See
Redeem, and cf. Redemption.]
1. The release of a captive, or of captive, or of captured property, by payment of a consideration; redemption; as, prisoners hopeless of ransom. Dryden.
2. The money or price paid for the redemption of a prisoner, or for goods captured by an enemy; payment for freedom from restraint, penalty, or forfeit. Thy ransom paid, which man from death redeems. Milton. His captivity in Austria, and the heavy ransom he paid for his liberty. Sir J. Davies/.
3. (O. Eng. Law)