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Definition of Predacious
1. Adjective. Hunting and killing other animals for food.
2. Adjective. Living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain. "A predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster"
Definition of Predacious
1. Adjective. (alternative spelling of predaceous) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Predacious
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Predacious
Literary usage of Predacious
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A familiar history of birds: Their Nature, Habits, and Instincts by Edward Stanley (1880)
"predacious Habits.—Sagacity.—Various Anecdotes.—Crows and Rooks.—Characters of
each.— Tame Crow.—Meetings, or Councils, of Crows, Herons, Magpies, &c. ..."
2. The Logic and Utility of Mathematics: With the Best Methods of Instruction by Charles Davies (1850)
"The lion is predacious; Therefore the lion is not ruminant:" this is a valid
syllogism ; and the middle term (predacious) is distributed by being made the ..."
3. A familiar history of birds: Their Nature, Habits, and Instincts by Edward Stanley (1880)
"predacious Habits.—Sagacity.—Various Anecdotes.—Crows and Rooks.—Characters of
each.— Tame Crow.—Meetings, or Councils, of Crows, Herons, Magpies, &c. ..."
4. The Logic and Utility of Mathematics: With the Best Methods of Instruction by Charles Davies (1850)
"The lion is predacious; Therefore the lion is not ruminant:" this is a valid
syllogism ; and the middle term (predacious) is distributed by being made the ..."
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