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Webster 1913 Edition
Spoliate
Spo′li-ate
(spō′lĭ-āt)
, Verb.
T.
& I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Spoliated
(-āˊtĕd)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Spoliating
(-āˊtĭng)
.] To plunder; to pillage; to despoil; to rob.
Webster 1828 Edition
Spoliate
SPOLIATE
,Verb.
T.
SPOLIATE
,Verb.
I.
Definition 2024
spoliate
spoliate
English
Verb
spoliate (third-person singular simple present spoliates, present participle spoliating, simple past and past participle spoliated)
- (transitive, obsolete) To plunder; to pillage; to despoil; to rob.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To engage in robbery; to plunder.
Quotations
- 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.
References
- spoliate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- spoliate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913