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To search (a place, through things, etc.) thoroughly, especially when vigorous and behind|leaving behind a state of disarray.
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(RQ:Thomas More Workes)
(RQ:Palsgrave Lesclarcissement)
(RQ:Wordsworth Prelude) scratches, ransacks up the earth for food, / Which they (quote-gloss) partake at pleasure.
(senseid) To search (someone or a place) thoroughly order to steal something, especially when vigorous and leaving behind a state of disarray; hence, to rob (someone or a place); to plunder.
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(RQ:Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida) their vovv is made / To ranſacke Troy, vvithin vvhoſe ſtrong emures / The rauiſh'd ''of Troy|Helen'', ''(w)'' Queene, / VVith vvanton ''(mythology)|Paris'' ſleepes, and that's the Quarrell.
(quote-book)’s (w).|title=Poems and Translations, Written upon Several Occasions, and to Several Persons.(nb...)|location=London|publisher=(...) Henry Bonwicke,(nb...)|page=88|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=5ABEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA88|oclc=1114231665|passage=VVhy, raiſing Tumults thus among the Just, / Offer'ſt thou Violence to my ſacred Duſt? / VVhy ranſackeſt my Grave? and ſummon'ſt me / From my Long Home, Seat of Eternitie?
(RQ:Southey Orsua) then he permitted them to ransack the town.
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(senseid) To search for and steal (something) as plunder.
(RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene)
To examine (someone or something) carefully; to investigate; also, to question (someone) thoroughly; to interrogate.
(RQ:Thomas More Workes) I purpoſe not in any open engliſh booke to ranſake and rebuke eyther the tone (quote-gloss) lawe, or the tother: I ſhall let him with that matter alone.
(quote-book)?; ''et al.''&93;|chapter=Annotations on the (w). XIII.|title=Annotations upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament:(nb...)|edition=3rd|location=London|publisher=(...) Evan Tyler|section=&91;signature 5H3&93;|sectionurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=36xlWrG0KSUC&pg=RA43-PA1|column=1|oclc=1328084530|passage=And like an angry Judge reſolved to condemn, thou ranſackeſt all my life, and paſſeſt an heavie ſentence upon me for ſinnes long ſince committed,(nb..).
(RQ:South Twelve Sermons) V. 2.|pages=133–134|pageref=133|passage=Conſider next, his &91;in Christianity|God's&93; Infinite, All-ſearching Knovvledge, vvhich looks through and through the moſt ſecret of our Thoughts, ranſacks every corner of the Heart, ponders the moſt invvard deſigns and ends of the Soul in all a man's Actions.
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) William Taylor,(nb...)|year_published=1720|volume=II|page=69|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-works-of-the-right-r_beveridge-william_1720_2/page/69/mode/1up|oclc=85991566|passage=Although thou beeſt blameleſs and unſpotted as to thy outvvard Life and Converſation, ſo that none can ſay, black is thine Eye, as to any groſs Sin; yet knovv, that in Christianity|God pondereth thy Heart, and ranſacketh every Corner of thy Soul, and obſerves the Motions of thoſe very Luſts that vvar vvithin thee, and prevail againſt thee.
(RQ:Johnson London)
(RQ:Cibber Apology)
(RQ:Hawthorne Scarlet Letter)
(RQ:Ruskin Eagle's Nest)
(quote-journal). Chapter IV.|journal=Munsey's Magazine|Munsey’s Magazine|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=Munsey|The Frank Andrew Munsey Company,(nb...)|year_published=|volume=XCI|issue=1|page=6|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/sim_munseys-magazine_1927-06_91_1/page/6/mode/1up|column=2|oclc=1031610151|passage=Dreams do not materialize in flesh and blood before a man! He ransacked his memory for a clew to that haunting familiarity. He tried to make himself believe it was just a crazy, senseless notion. But it persisted; he could not shake it off.
(RQ:Quarles Virgin Widow)
To search (someone) for a thing.
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(RQ:Virgil Phaer Eneidos)
To search thoroughly, especially when leaving behind a state of disarray.
(RQ:Gascoigne Flowres)
(RQ:Sylvester Du Bartas)
(senseid) To search for and steal things.
(RQ:Quarles Emblemes) of Songs 3|III. III.|stanza=1|page=229|passage=VVhat ſecret corner? VVhat unvvonted vvay / Has ſcap'd the ranſack of my rambling thoughts?
(RQ:Southey Orsua)
(quote-journal)|volume=XV|issue=387|page=347|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/sim_chambers-journal-of-popular-literature-science-and-arts_1861-06-01_15_387/page/347/mode/1up|column=2|oclc=793924257|passage=He is decided in his belief that the signet was an emerald, and as precious for the work of the artist as its own intrinsic value. Perhaps this stone also will turn up in the ransack of the sultan's treasury.
(RQ:Blackmore Springhaven)