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Webster 1913 Edition


Expilation

Exˊpi-la′tion

,
Noun.
[L.
expiatio
.]
The act of expilating or stripping off; plunder; pillage.
[Obs.]
This ravenous
expilation
of the state.
Daniel.

Webster 1828 Edition


Expilation

EXPILA'TION

,
Noun.
[L. expilatio, from expilo, to strip; ex and pilo, to peel.] A stripping; the act of committing waste on land; waste. [Little used.]