exspoliation
English
Etymology
From Latin exspoliatio, from exspoliare (“to spoil, to plunder”), from ex (“out”) + spoliare. See spoliate.
Noun
exspoliation (usually uncountable, plural exspoliations)
- (obsolete) spoliation
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Bishop Hall to this entry?)
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 exspoliation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams
- expoliations, expositional