Definition of "depredatory" [dep•re•da•to•ry]

• Tending or designed to depredate. (adjective)

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• "Various were the measures adopted to check this depredatory spirit."
• "The one solitary advantage of these corporations is that they gather the depredatory birds together, and lead them to prey upon themselves instead of wandering abroad for the defeathering of the innocent and artless who abound even in these days."
• "Upon his juncture with his tribe the effects of Dugingi's education soon displayed themselves; and having been caught and convicted of theft, and after a series of successful depredatory exploits, he was sentenced to two years 'penal servitude at the convict establishment in Cockatoo"