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Netherlands, II. 363. Human beings are cruel to one another in proportion as their habits are predatory. H. Spencer, Social Statics, p. 449. 3. In zoöl., habitually preying upon other animals; carnivorous or insectivorous, as a mammal; rapacious or raptorial, as a go us, as an insect.-4t. Hungry; ravenous. The evils that come of exercise are the spirits more hot and predatory . a bird; adepha that it maketh Bacon , Nat. Hist., § 299. predet, n. [L. præda , booty, plunder: see prey2, n .] Spoil; booty; plunder; pillage. The gentleman, being nettled that his kinsman would see me to rescue the prede of his deadlie fo, brake out in these cholerike words. Stan i hurst , Descrip. of Ireland, iv. predet, v. t. [Also pread , preid ; prædari , plunder: see prey2 , v.] To plunder; pillage; rob. When the subjects were preided , you would be content to winke at their misery, so that your mouth were stopt with briberie.