Adjective: Voracious; avaricious. 1787, Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 6: Concerning Dangers from Dissensions Between the States: To presume a want of motives for such contests [of power between states] as an argument against their existence, would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious.1787, Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 6: Concerning Dangers from Dissensions Between the States: To presume a want of motives for such contests [of power between states] as an argument against their existence, would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious.Given to taking by force or plundering; aggressively greedy. 1910, Niccolò Machiavelli (translated by Ninian Hill Thomson), The Prince, Chapter XIX: A Prince [...] sooner becomes hated by being rapacious and by interfering with the property and with the women of his subjects, than in any other way.1910, Niccolò Machiavelli (translated by Ninian Hill Thomson), The Prince, Chapter XIX: A Prince [...] sooner becomes hated by being rapacious and by interfering with the property and with the women of his subjects, than in any other way.(of an animal, usually a bird) Subsisting off live prey. 1827, James Fenimore Cooper, The Prairie, Chapter XIII: Even the rapacious birds appeared to comprehend the nature of the ceremony, for [...] they once more began to make their airy circuits above the place [...]1827, James Fenimore Cooper, The Prairie, Chapter XIII: Even the rapacious birds appeared to comprehend the nature of the ceremony, for [...] they once more began to make their airy circuits above the place [...]
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