spoliate

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin spoliātus, perfect passive participle of spoliō (“plunder, pillage, rob”).

Verb

spoliate (third-person singular simple present spoliat, present participle ing, simple past and past participle spoliated)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To plunder

   Synonyms: pillage, despoil, rob

2. (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 […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “spoliate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• lipoates

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Italian

Verb

spoliate

1. second-person plural present indicative of spoliare
2. second-person plural present subjunctive of spoliare
3. second-person plural imperative of spoliare
4. feminine plural of spoliato

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) spoliāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of spoliō