Verb
(
en-verb)
To move about in roving fashion looking for plunder.
- a marauding band
* {{quote-book
|year= 1684
|year_published= 1728
|author= (
Thomas Otway)
|by=
|title= The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway
|url= http://books.google.com/books?id=tA4UAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA88
|original=
|chapter=
|section= The Atheist; or the Second Part of the Soldier's Fortune
|isbn=
|edition=
|publisher= Richard, James, and Bethel Wellington
|location= London
|editor=
|volume= 2
|page= 88
|passage= Peace
Plunder , Peace, you Rogue; no
Moroding now i we'll burn, rob, demolish and murder another time together : This is a Bus'ness must be done with decency.
}}
* {{quote-book
|year= 1711
|year_published= 1721
|author= (
Joseph Addison)
|by=
|title= The Spectator, no. 90-505
|url= http://books.google.com/books?id=jAszAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA115
|original=
|chapter=
|section=
|isbn=
|edition=
|publisher= Thomas Tickell
|location= London
|editor=
|volume= 3
|page= 115
|passage= in one of which they met with a party of
French that had been
marauding , and made them all prisoners at discretion.
}}
To go about aggressively or in a predatory manner.
* {{quote-book
|year= 1770
|year_published=
|author=
|by=
|title= The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature
|url= http://books.google.com/books?id=4FrQAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA73
|original=
|chapter= Fables for Grown Gentlemen
|section=
|isbn=
|edition=
|publisher= A. Hamilton
|location= London
|editor= Tobias George Smollett
|volume= 29
|page= 73
|passage= A flea out of a blanket shaken, A bloody-minded sinner, Upon a taylor's neck was taken,
Marauding for a dinner.
}}
To raid and pillage.
* {{quote-book
|year= 1829
|year_published=
|author= (
Washington Irving)
|by=
|title= A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada: In Two Volumes
|url= http://books.google.com/books?id=hylOAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA118
|original=
|chapter=
|section=
|isbn=
|edition=
|publisher= Baudry, at the Foreign Library
|location= Paris
|editor=
|volume= 1
|page= 118-9
|passage= As the tract of country they intended to
maraud was far in the Moorish territories near the coast of the Mediterranean, they did not arrive until late in the following day.
}}
