Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for PRED'A-TO-RY
PRED'A-TO-RY, a. [L. prædatorius, from præda, prey.]
- Plundering; pillaging; characterized by plundering; practicing rapine; as, a predatory war; a predatory excursion; a predatory party.
- Hungry; ravenous; as, predatory spirits or appetite. [Hardly allowable.] – Bacon.
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