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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 856 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PLUNDER , to rob, to pillage, especially in See also:

war. The word came into See also:English usage directly from Ger. plundern (derived from a substantive Plunder meaning " See also:household stuff," See also:bed-clothes, clothing, &c.), particularly with reference to the pillaging of the See also:Thirty Years' War. See also:Thomas May (See also:History"'of the See also:Long See also:Parliament, 1647; quoted in the New English See also:Dictionary) says: " Many Tonnes and Villages he (See also:Prince See also:Rupert) plundered, which is to say robb'd, for at that See also:time first was the word plunder used in See also:England, being See also:borne in See also:Germany." The New English Dictionary's earliest See also:quotation is from the See also:Swedish Intelligencer (1632).

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