Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. A light-armed, irregular foot soldier.
2. A lawless fellow who lives by plunder; one of a band of robbers; especially, one of a gang living in mountain retreats; a highwayman; a freebooter.
Like a brigand or freebooter; robberlike.
Thief Roget’s Thesaurus §792
N. thief, robber, homo triumliterarum, pilferer, rifler, filcher, plagiarist, spoiler, depredator, pillager, marauder, harpy, shark*, land shark, falcon, mosstrooper, bushranger, bedouin|, brigand, freebooter, bandit, thug, dacoit, pirate, corsair, viking, paul jones|, buccaneer, buccanier|, piqueerer|, pickeerer|, rover, ranger, privateer, filibuster, rapparee, wrecker, picaroon, smuggler, poacher, abductor, badger*, bunko man, cattle thief, chor, contrabandist, crook, hawk, holdup man, hold-up*, jackleg*, kidnaper, rustler, cattle rustler, sandbagger, sea king, skin*, sneak thief, spieler, strong-arm man, highwayman, dick turpin, claude duval, macheath, footpad, sturdy beggar, cut purse, pick purse, pickpocket, light-fingered gentry, sharper, card sharper, skittle sharper, thimblerigger, rook*, greek, blackleg, leg, welsher*, defaulter, autolycus, jeremy diddler, robert macaire, artful dodger, trickster, swell mob*, chevalier d'industrie, shoplifter, swindler, peculator, forger, coiner, fence, receiver of stolen goods, duffer, smasher, burglar, housebreaker, cracksman, magsman*, bill sikes, jack sheppard, jonathan wild, gang, gang of thieves, theft ring, organized crime, mafia, the sicilian mafia, the mob, la cosa nostra, dillinger, al capone, robin hood
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2 KJV and 0 BSB verses contain “Brigand”
Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host.