"prædatory" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more prædatory",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most prædatory",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "predatory"
        }
      ],
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1840, E.C. and W. Osborne, Osborne’s London & Birmingham Railway Guide, page 139:",
          "text": "These constitute a race of Englishmen almost as distinct from the rest of their countrymen as they gypsies; and from their prædatory habits, have been termed by the talented author of “The History of the Railyway,” banditti; they are men of perhaps, the finest physical structure, and most daring courage to be found in any part of the globe; and to this is superadded a cunning, which is as much a general characteristic to this race as shrewdness is that of Scotchmen, and with that of Irishmen.",
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        }
      ],
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        "Obsolete form of predatory."
      ],
      "id": "en-prædatory-en-adj-9MwpBzOH",
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        [
          "predatory",
          "predatory#English"
        ]
      ],
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        "alt-of",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "prædatory"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more prædatory",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most prædatory",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "word": "predatory"
        }
      ],
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        "Pages with entries"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1840, E.C. and W. Osborne, Osborne’s London & Birmingham Railway Guide, page 139:",
          "text": "These constitute a race of Englishmen almost as distinct from the rest of their countrymen as they gypsies; and from their prædatory habits, have been termed by the talented author of “The History of the Railyway,” banditti; they are men of perhaps, the finest physical structure, and most daring courage to be found in any part of the globe; and to this is superadded a cunning, which is as much a general characteristic to this race as shrewdness is that of Scotchmen, and with that of Irishmen.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Obsolete form of predatory."
      ],
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          "predatory",
          "predatory#English"
        ]
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        "alt-of",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "prædatory"
}