Arreption

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Arreption \Ar*rep"tion\, n. [L. arripere, arreptum, to seize,
     snatch; ad + rapere to snatch. See {Rapacious}.]
     The act of taking away. [Obs.] "This arreption was sudden."
     --Bp. Hall.
     [1913 Webster]