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Webster 1913 Edition
Expilator
Ex′pi-laˊtor
,Noun.
[L.]
One who pillages; a plunderer; a pillager.
[Obs.]
Sir T. Browne.
Definition 2024
expilator
expilator
English
Noun
expilator (plural expilators)
- (obsolete) One who plunders or pillages.
- 1658: For which the most barbarous Expilators found the most civill Rhetorick. — Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial (Penguin 2005, p. 26)
Latin
Verb
expīlātor
- second-person singular future passive imperative of expīlō
- third-person singular future passive imperative of expīlō
References
- expilator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- expilator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “expilator”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.