ETYMOLOGY
from Middle French ravisable, ravissable (greedy, rapacious, predatory)
EXAMPLE
“…Outward, lambren semen we,
Fulle of goodnesse and of pitee,
And inward we, withouten fable,
Ben gredy wolves ravysable. …”
From: The Romaunt of the Rose
By Geoffrey Chaucer, a1425
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