单词 | piratic |
释义 | piratic, a.|paɪˈrætɪk| [ad. L. pīrāticus, a. Gr. πειρᾱτικός, f. πειρᾱτής pirate: see -ic. So F. piratique.] Of or pertaining to a pirate or pirates; like a pirate. piratic war, that waged by Pompey against the pirates in the Mediterranean.
a1640Day Parl. Bees i. (1881) 13 [He] Out-law-like doth challenge as his owne Your Highnes due; nay, Pyratick detaines The waxen fleet, sailing upon your plaines. 1692Washington tr. Milton's Def. Pop. v. M.'s Wks. 1851 VIII. 137 Nor must Pompey have undertaken the Piratick War. 1783Watson Philip III, iv. (1839) 201 The piratic states of Barbary. 1854J. S. C. Abbott Napoleon (1855) I. xxv. 395 The Algerines were now sweeping with their piratic crafts the Mediterranean. |

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