Abripio, ábripis, penult. corr. abrípui, abréptum, abrípere, Ex ab, & rapio, Plin. To take fro: to take away by force: to snatch away.Frumentum ab oratore abripere.Cic.Maricum coniuge abripere.Cic.To take away.Aliquem terra abripere.Cic.To take from the earth, and carrie vp into the ayre.A complexu abripere, vel è, aut ex complexu.Liu.To take out of ones armes. Abripere.To take or carie away by force.Ad quæstionem abripere, vel in cruciatum.Cicer.To draw forth.In seruitutem abripi. Hirtius. In vincula atque in tenebras abripi iussit.Cicer.He willed him to be violently caried away into pryson.Tempestate abripi.Cic. Etiam si natura eum parentis similitudine abriperet.Cicer.Although nature hath not resembled him, or made him lyke vnto his father. Sese abripere.Plaut.To goe away sodainly.Abripuit repente se.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ab-rĭpĭo, pui, eptum, 3, v. a. [rapio], to take away by violence, to drag away, to tear off or away (stronger than its synn. abduco, abigo, abstraho). I.Lit.A. In gen.: abripite hunc intro actutum inter manus,
, Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 30; cf.: abreptam ex eo loco virginem secum asportāsse, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 49, 107: de convivio in vincla atque in tenebras, id. ib. 2, 4, 10, 24: ab complexu alicujus, Liv. 3, 57, 3: milites vi fluminis abrepti, Caes. B. C. 1, 64; cf. Mel. 3, 5, 8; Plin. 2, 67, 67, 170; Verg. A. 1, 108: aliquem ad quaestionem, Cic. Clu. 33, 89; cf.: aliquem ad humanum exitum, id. Rep. 1, 16 fin.; with acc. only: Cererem, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 50, 111: cives, Nep. Milt. 4, 2: aliquid, id. Dat. 4, 2: abripere se, to run, scamper away: ita abripuit repente sese subito, Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 21; so id. Curc. 5, 1, 8.— B.Transf., of property, to dissipate, squander: quod ille compersit miser, id illa univorsum abripiet, Ter. Phorm. 1, 1, 11.— II.Trop., to carry off, remove, detach: repente te quasi quidam aestus ingenii tui procul a terrā abripuit atque in altum ... abstraxit, Cic. de Or. 3, 36, 145: voluntate omnes tecum fuerunt; tempestate abreptus est unus, id. Lig. 12, 34 (the figure taken from those driven away in a storm at sea); so, abreptus amore caedum, Sil. 5, 229; cf. id. 6, 332: (filium) etiam si natura a parentis similitudine abriperet, i.e.