Robbery

5 definitions found

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

  Robbery \Rob"ber*y\, n.; pl. {Robberies}. [OF. roberie.]
     1. The act or practice of robbing; theft.
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              Thieves for their robbery have authority
              When judges steal themselves.         --Shak.


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     2. (Law) The crime of robbing. See {Rob}, v. t., 2.
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     Note: Robbery, in a strict sense, differs from theft, as it
           is effected by force or intimidation, whereas theft is
           committed by stealth, or privately.
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     Syn: Theft; depredation; spoliation; despoliation;
          despoilment; plunder; pillage; rapine; larceny;
          freebooting; piracy.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  robbery
       n 1: larceny by threat of violence
       2: plundering during riots or in wartime [syn: {looting}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  77 Moby Thesaurus words for "robbery":
     armed robbery, asportation, assault and robbery, banditry,
     bank robbery, bereavement, breaking and entering, burglary,
     burgling, caper, cattle lifting, cattle stealing, cost, damage,
     dead loss, debit, denial, denudation, depredation, deprivation,
     despoilment, destruction, detriment, dispossession, divestment,
     expense, extortion, filch, forfeit, forfeiture, grab, heist,
     highway robbery, hijack, hijacking, hold-up, holdup, injury, job,
     larceny, lift, looting, loser, losing, losing streak, loss,
     mugging, perdition, pilferage, pilfering, pillage, pillaging,
     pinch, pinching, plunder, plundering, pocket picking, privation,
     purse snatching, ransacking, rip-off, robbing, ruin, sack, sacking,
     sacrifice, spoliation, steal, stealing, stickup, stickup job,
     stripping, taking away, theft, thievery, thieving, total loss
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Robbery
     Practised by the Ishmaelites (Gen. 16:12), the Chaldeans and
     Sabeans (Job 1:15, 17), and the men of Shechem (Judg. 9:25. See
     also 1 Sam. 27:6-10; 30; Hos. 4:2; 6:9). Robbers infested Judea
     in our Lord's time (Luke 10:30; John 18:40; Acts 5:36, 37;
     21:38; 2 Cor. 11:26). The words of the Authorized Version,
     "counted it not robbery to be equal," etc. (Phil. 2:6, 7), are
     better rendered in the Revised Version, "counted it not a prize
     to be on an equality," etc., i.e., "did not look upon equality
     with God as a prize which must not slip from his grasp" = "did
     not cling with avidity to the prerogatives of his divine
     majesty; did not ambitiously display his equality with God."
     
       "Robbers of churches" should be rendered, as in the Revised
     Version, "of temples." In the temple at Ephesus there was a
     great treasure-chamber, and as all that was laid up there was
     under the guardianship of the goddess Diana, to steal from such
     a place would be sacrilege (Acts 19:37).
     

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  ROBBERY, crimes. The felonious and forcible taking from the person of 
  another, goods or money to any value, by violence or putting him in fear. 4 
  Bl. Com. 243 1 Bald. 102. 
       2. By "taking from the person" is meant not only the immediate taking 
  from his person, but also from his presence when it is done with violence 
  and against his consent. 1 Hale, P. C. 533; 2 Russ. Crimes, 61. The taking 
  must be by violence or putting the owner in fear, but both these 
  circumstances need not concur, for if a man should be knocked down and then 
  robbed while be is insensible, the offence is still a robbery. 4 Binn. R. 
  379. And if the party be put in fear by threats and then robbed, it is not 
  necessary there should be any greater violence. 
       3. This offence differs from a larceny from the person in this, that in 
  the latter, there is no violence, while in the former the crime is 
  incomplete without an actual or constructive force. Id. Vide 2 Swift's Dig. 
  298. Prin. Pen. Law, ch. 22, Sec. 4, p. 285; and Carrying away; Invito 
  Domino; Larceny; Taking.