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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)

.]

[L.

spoliatus

, p. p. of

spoliare

to spoil. See

,

Verb.

T.

]

To plunder; to pillage; to despoil; to rob.

Webster 1828 Edition

Spoliate

SPOLIATE

,

Verb.

T.

[L.] To plunder; to pillage.

SPOLIATE

,

Verb.

I.

To practice plunder; to commit robbery. In time of war, rapacious men are let loose to spoliate on commerce.