ransacked, ppl. a.
(ˈrænsækt)
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
Searched into, explored, plundered, etc.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 423/1 Ransakyd, investigatus, perscrutatus. 1581 Mulcaster Positions xxxix. (1887) 194 The spoile of the ransaked pouertie. 1659 Sprat Plague of Athens (1790) 249 The ransack'd memory Languish'd in naked poverty. 1697 Dryden æneid ii. 1040 The Spoils which they from ransack'd Houses brought. 1862 Lytton Str. Story II. 175 A Flora and a Fauna which have no similitudes in the ransacked quarters of the Old World. |