spoliate
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin spoliātus, perfect passive participle of spoliō (“plunder, pillage, rob”).
Verb edit
spoliate (third-person singular simple present spoliates, present participle spoliating, simple past and past participle spoliated)
- (transitive, obsolete) To plunder
- (intransitive, obsolete) To engage in robbery; to plunder.
Quotations edit
- 1845, Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil; or, The Two Nations:
- But the other great whig families who had obtained this honour, and who had done something more for it than spoliate their church and betray their king, set up their backs against this claim of the Egremonts.
Translations edit
To engage in robbery; to plunder
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References edit
- “spoliate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “spoliate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams edit
Italian edit
Etymology 1 edit
Verb edit
spoliate
- inflection of spoliare:
Etymology 2 edit
Participle edit
spoliate f pl
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Verb edit
spoliāte