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Definition of Piratical
1. Adjective. Characteristic of pirates. "Piratical attackers"
2. Adjective. Characteristic of piracy. "Piratical editions of my book"
Definition of Piratical
1. a. Of or pertaining to a pirate; acquired by, or practicing, piracy; as, a piratical undertaking.
Definition of Piratical
1. Adjective. of, pertaining to, or similar to pirates ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Piratical
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Piratical
Literary usage of Piratical
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reportsby Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1882)
"However hostile, malignant, or even piratical the aggression might be, the papers
could shed no light upon the subject. The owners of the cargo, ..."
2. Federal Statutes Annotated: Containing All the Laws of the United States, of by United States, Edward Thompson Company (1918)
"The offenses referred to are such only a« would be deemed piratical under the
laws of nations. The Schooner Chapman, (18W) 4 Sawy. 501. 5 l'en. Cas. No. 2. ..."
3. A Treatise on Federal Criminal Law Procedure by William Hawley Atwell (1916)
"Robbery on Shore by Crew of piratical Vessel. —Section 5371 becomes Section 302
of the new Code as follows: "Sec. 302. Whoever, being engaged in any ..."
4. A General Abridgment and Digest of American Law: With Occasional Notes and by Nathan Dane (1824)
"210. foreigner, or by a citizen or a foreigner on board of a piratical Art. ...
The indictment at large is for piratical murder ; in fact, the crime was a ..."
5. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson (1907)
"Proposals for Concerted Operation among the Powers at War with the piratical
States of Barbary, November, I786.1 i. It is proposed that the several powers ..."
6. The History of Rome by Wilhelm Ihne (1871)
"So changeable was the fortune of war in Sicily, and so piratical dependent on
accidental ... He undertook now his piratical expeditions against Caulonia, ..."
7. A Treatise on the Law of Property in Intellectual Productions in Great by Eaton Sylvester Drone (1879)
"So the gratuitous distribution of piratical copies would be an ... the book com-
of all copies of another book which plained of were piratical, O'Brien, J., ..."
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