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expilation Now rare.|ɛkspɪˈleɪʃən|
[ad. L. expīlātiōn-em, n. of action f. expīlāre: see prec.]
1. The action of pillaging; spoliation, plunder.
1563Grindal Let. Sir W. Cecil Wks. (1843) 257 Take order..not to leave the poor tenants subject to the expilation of these country gentlemen. 1597Daniel Civ. Wares ii. cxiv, Whence..proceeds This rav'nous expilation of the state. a1661Fuller Worthies, Sussex iii. 104 He was loth to go back to Bath, having formerly consented to the expilation of that Bishoprick. 1675tr. Machiavelli's Prince xxvi. (Rtldg. 1883) 159 Taxes and expilations in the kingdom of Naples. 1885R. W. Dixon Hist. Ch. Eng. xxi. III. 536 This final expilation..avenged upon the son the sacrilege of the father.
b. concr. A collection made by plundering.
1715M. Davies Athen. Brit. I. Pref. 51 A compleat Collection or Expilation of all the tart Reparties..out of all the Play-Books that ever were printed in England.
†2. Civil Law. (See quot.) Obs.
1730–6in Bailey (folio). 1751Chambers Cycl., Expilation, in the civil law, the act of withdrawing, or diverting, something belonging to an inheritance, before any body had declared himself heir thereof. 1848in Wharton Law Lex. |