a. Zool. [a. Fr. accipitrin-e, f. L. accipiter: see -INE1. Cf. aquiline.] Of the falcon kind; hawk-like.
1838. Pen. Cycl., XI. 513/2. M. Latreille places the Secretary in his second family of the Diurnal tribe of Rapacious birds, viz. the Accipitrine.
1872. Ruskin, Eagle’s Nest, § 11. The difference between man and man is in the quickness and quality, the accipitrine intensity, the olfactory choice, of his νοῦς.
