† spoilfuladj.
Obsolete.
Causing or characterized by destruction or pillage; plundering, spoliatory.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > spoliation or depredation > [adjective]
ravenousc1425
rapinous1484
polling1526
spoiling1565
predatory1589
pilling1590
spoilful1590
plundering1641
vulturian1659
predatitious1660
pillagingc1670
vulturine1721
predal1737
depredatory1771
spoliatory1790
predatorial1791
plunderous1797
spoliating1840
accipitral1842
despoiling1859
spoliative1875
predative1920
prehensile1927
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. x. sig. Y5 Hauing oft in batteill vanquished Those spoylefull Picts, and swarming Easterlings.
?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads viii. 180 And he with spoilful fire had burn'd the fleet, if [etc.].
?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) iii. 437 But thou..too long..Thy goods left free for many a spoilfull guest.
1670 J. Milton Hist. Brit. iv. 179 As if thir landing had bin at the mouth of Humber, and thir spoilfull march far into the Country.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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