单词 | pilyie |
释义 | † pilyiev. Scottish. Obsolete. transitive. To pillage, plunder; to seize by piracy. Cf. pill v.1 7a. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > spoliation or depredation > despoil or prey upon [verb (transitive)] reaveOE stripa1225 pill?c1225 robc1225 peela1250 despoil1297 raimc1300 spoilc1330 spoila1340 to pull a finch (also pigeon, plover, etc.)c1387 despoil1393 preya1400 spoila1400 spulyiea1400 unspoila1400 riflec1400 poll1490 to pill and poll1528 to poll and pill1528 exspoila1530 pilyie1539 devour?1542 plume1571 rive1572 bepill1574 fleece1575 to prey over1576 pread1577 disvaledge1598 despoliate1607 to make spoil of1613 expilate1624 to peel and poll1641 depredate1651 violatea1657 disvalise1672 to pick feathers off (a person)1677 to make stroy of1682 spoliate1699 pilfer1714 snabble1725 rump1815 vampire1832 sweat1847 ploat1855 vampirize1888 1539 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1907) VII. 225 To..seik the schippis that pyllijt the Scottis schippis. 1598 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1816) IV. 190/2 Samekle of the said armour as salbe pilleit or lost by sey. c1600 W. Fowler tr. N. Machiavelli Prince in Wks. (1936) II. 114 A prince suld mak litill count provyding that..he spoyle not nor pyllie his subiects. c1626 H. Bisset Rolment Courtis (1922) II. 224 The maryneris..to sweir that they sall nocht steill nor pylȝe [v.r. spylȝe] the guidis or buitting of prysis. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < v.1539 |
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