spoliate
English
Etymology
From Latin spoliātus, perfect passive participle of spoliō (“plunder, pillage, rob”).
Verb
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
- 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.
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Translations
References
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “spoliate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “spoliate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
Italian
Etymology 1
Verb
spoliate
- inflection of spoliare:
- second-person plural present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person plural imperative
Etymology 2
Participle
spoliate f pl
- feminine plural of spoliato
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
spoliāte
- second-person plural present active imperative of spoliō