2. Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals seized by violence,; as, a tiger is a rapacious animal; a rapacious bird.
3. Avaricious; grasping; extortionate; also, greedy; ravenous; voracious; as, rapacious usurers; a rapacious appetite. [Thy Lord] redeem thee from Death's rapacious claim Milton .
Syn.
— Greedy; grasping; ravenous; voracious.
— Ra*pa"cious*ly, adv.
— Ra*pa"cious*ness, n.
RAPACITY
Ra*pac"i*ty, n. Etym: [L. rapacitas: cf. F. rapacite. See Rapacious.]
1. The quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness; ravenousness; as, the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of wolves.
2. The act or practice of extorting or exacting by oppressive injustice; exorbitant greediness of gain. "The rapacity of some ages." Sprat.
RAPAREE
Rap`a*ree", n.
Defn: See Rapparee.
RAPE
Rape (rap), n. Etym: [F. râpe a grape stalk.]
1. Fruit, as grapes, plucked from the cluster. Ray.