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booty 音標拼音: [b'uti] n. 戰利品,獲得之物 戰利品,獲得之物 booty n 1: goods or money obtained illegally [ synonym: { loot}, { booty}, { pillage}, { plunder}, { prize}, { swag}, { dirty money}] Booty \ Boo" ty\, n. [ Cf. Icel. b[= y] ti exchange, barter, Sw. byte barter, booty, Dan. bytte; akin to D. buit booty, G. beute, and fr. Icel. byta, Sw. byta, Dan. bytte, to distribute, exchange. The Scandinavian word was influenced in English by boot profit.] That which is seized by violence or obtained by robbery, especially collective spoil taken in war; plunder; pillage. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] { To play booty}, to play dishonestly, with an intent to lose; to allow one' s adversary to win at cards at first, in order to induce him to continue playing and victimize him afterwards. [ Obs.] -- L' Estrange. [ 1913 Webster] 30 Moby Thesaurus words for " booty": bag, blackmail, boodle, capture, catch, contraband, gain, graft, haul, hot goods, loot, perks, perquisite, pickings, plunder, pork barrel, prize, public till, public trough, seizure, spoil, spoils, spoils of office, squeeze, stealings, stolen goods, swag, take, takings, tillBooty captives or cattle or objects of value taken in war. In Canaan all that breathed were to be destroyed ( Deut. 20: 16). The " pictures and images" of the Canaanites were to be destroyed also ( Num. 33: 52). The law of booty as to its division is laid down in Num. 31: 26- 47. David afterwards introduced a regulation that the baggage- guard should share the booty equally with the soldiers engaged in battle. He also devoted of the spoils of war for the temple ( 1 Sam. 30: 24- 26; 2 Sam. 8: 11; 1 Chr. 26: 27). BOOTY, war. The capture of personal property by a public enemy on land, in contradistinction to prize, which is a capture of such property by such an enemy, on the sea. 2. After booty has been in complete possession of the enemy for twenty- four hours, it becomes absolutely his, without any right of postliminy in favor of the original owner, particularly when it has passed, bona fide, into the hands of a neutral. 1 Kent, Com. 110. 3. The right to the booty, Pothier says, belongs to the sovereign but sometimes the right of the sovereign, or the public, is transferred to the soldiers, to encourage them. Tr. du Droit de Propriete, part 1, c. 2, art. 1, Sec. 2; Burl. Nat. and Pol. Law, vol. ii. part 4, o. 7, n. 12.
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