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Webster 1913 Edition


Expilator

Ex′pi-laˊtor

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Noun.
[L.]
One who pillages; a plunderer; a pillager.
[Obs.]
Sir T. Browne.

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expilator

expilator

English

Noun

expilator (plural expilators)

  1. (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

  1. second-person singular future passive imperative of expīlō
  2. third-person singular future passive imperative of expīlō

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