depopulatorn.
/dɪˈpɒpjʊleɪtə/ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > robber > sacker, raider, or looter > [noun]
reavereOE
forayerc1330
cateran1371
ransackerc1390
depopulatorc1440
rover1481
forager1489
river?a1500
riderc1550
wight-rider1569
predour1577
sacker1589
harrier1596
boot-haler1600
marauder1698
poligar1773
skinner1780
looter1860
raider1861
c1440 J. Lydgate Secrees 30 Callyd prodigus which is nat honourable, Depopulator A wastour nat tretable.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes Ep. Ded. sig. A4 Bestia i: à vastando, for that they were wild & depopulators of other their associats.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 427 Those wastfull depopulators did what they could..many a time to winne it by siege.
2. One who depopulates a district or country. In 17th cent. esp. one who cleared off the rural population from his estates.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > devastation or desolation > one who or that which
wastera1382
harrowerc1450
harrier1596
desolation1608
ravager1611
dispeopler1616
depopulator1623
desolatora1638
vastator1659
havocker1680
devaster1789
devastator1818
1623 T. Scott High-waies of God 77 The Depopulator..to inhanse his Rents, puls downe all the petty Tenements and Farmes, and will haue none dwell neere him.
1626 in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll. (1659) 356 Covetous Landlords, Inclosers, Depopulators.
1642 T. Fuller Holy State 237 (T.) Our puny depopulators allege for their doings the king's and country's good.
1803 T. R. Malthus Ess. Princ. Population (new ed.) ii. ii. 204 Wars, plagues, or that greater depopulator than either, a tyrannical government.
1827 W. Scott Life Napoleon II. ix. 371 Collot d'Herbois, the demolisher and depopulator of Lyons.
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