Definitions For Spoliate

Verb

spoliat , ing (transitive, obsolete) To plunder : Synonym: pillage, despoil, rob (intransitive, obsolete) To engage in robbery; to plunder.

Quotations

1845, w:benjamin disraeli, 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.

Etymology

From {{etyl, la, en}} spoliātus, , , perfect passive participle of spoliō, , plunder, pillage, rob.

Anagrams

lipoates