spoliative

English

Etymology

Compare French spoliatif.

Adjective

spoliative (comparative more spoliative, superlative most spoliative)

1. Serving to take away, diminish, or rob.
   1. (medicine, dated) Serving to diminish the amount of blood in the body.

      spoliative bloodletting

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “spoliative”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)