pillagen.
/ˈpɪlɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈpɪlɪdʒ/ 1. The action or an act of plundering, sacking, or looting a place, esp. in war; depredation, robbery. In early use also: †extortion; unjust taxation or exaction (obsolete). Also figurative.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > sacking, raiding, or looting > [noun]
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > spoliation or depredation > [noun]
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a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. 2035 (MED) As Aristotle upon Chaldee Ensample..tauhte Of thilke folk that were unsauhte Toward here king for his pilage.
a1456 tr. Secreta Secret. (Marmaduke, Ashm. 59) (1977) 213 (MED) Vntrouþe..engendreþe robberye, theffte, and all pillages.
c1475 (?c1451) Bk. Noblesse (Royal) (1860) 31 That they have no nede to lyve by pillage, extorcion, and rapyn uppon the countreis of here frendis.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. lxxxvii. 64 [He] shall sette his mynde all to Pyllage and Rauyne.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. xlviij They desyre to be deliuered from the pillage..of the Bishoppe of Rome.
1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 278 With such furious outrage..pilladge & polladge.
1639 S. Du Verger tr. J.-P. Camus Admirable Events 87 Exposing his reputation to the pillage of every mans tongue.
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. xxxvi. 440 The pillage lasted fourteen days and nights.
1800 P. Colquhoun Treat. Commerce & Police R. Thames Introd. 27 Pecuniary losses suffered by pillage and embezzlements.
1846 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 II. v. 190 The object of the incursion being pillage, not fighting.
1898 Argosy Apr. 81 The town was given over to pillage, as Sir Paul had promised.
1927 W. Cather Death comes for Archbishop Prol. 11 The painting may have been ruined in a pillage or massacre.
1995 Independent 30 Sept. 18/2 This pillage of a country's cultural treasures.
2. Goods taken forcibly or unjustly, esp. from an enemy in war; booty, plunder, spoils.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > stolen goods > [noun] > spoil or plunder > taken in war or raid
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a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. 6172 If he take..Fro thilke maide som pilage, Noght of the broches ne the Ringes, Bot of some othre smale thinges.
a1400 Prymer (St. John's Cambr.) (1891) 102 I schal be glad upon thi speches as he þat fyndeth manye pilages [c1425 Cambr. spuylis].
c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 210 Þe clerk, ȝif he take suche pylage in batayle as an-oth.er temperall man, þat clerk synneth.
c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 114 All suld be at his will, prisonaris and pillagis, to part at his will.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. cxlvii. f. lxxviii He commaundyd all the pyllage to be brought to one place.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. xix All the pillage almoste was restored, and the countrey pacified.
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. ix. sig. T5 That robbed all the countrie there about, And brought the pillage home, whence none could get it out. View more context for this quotation
1640 J. Fletcher & J. Shirley Night-walker i. sig. B4 I know this wedding Will yeeld me lustie pillage.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Picqueering A little flying War, or Skirmish, which the Soldiers make when detach'd from their Bodies, for Pillage.
1750 W. Beawes Lex Mercatoria (1752) 7 Nations greedy of blood and pillage.
1800 P. Colquhoun Treat. Commerce & Police R. Thames 65 No inconsiderable portion of the pillage fell to the share of Journeymen Coopers.
1817 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1818) II. xvii. 51 When the rufescents, laden with pillage, retire, they do it in close order.
1902 Chambers's Jrnl. July 431/1 To judge from the selection of pillage, some one conversant with the interior economy of the caravan was involved.
1991 C. Allmand Hundred Years War (BNC) 50 There were also rules about the taking, sharing, and disposing of booty and pillage.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > market dues > [noun] > other market dues
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a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) ii. xxii. sig. r.vv All theyr tenauntes and seruauntes haue fre passage Within all chesshire without tolle and pillage.
1591 Canterbury Cathedral MS All the other profits..of all the Pillage, Stallage, Toll and other advantages belonging unto the said Dean and Chapter within the said market and fair.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
pillagev.
/ˈpɪlɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈpɪlɪdʒ/ 1. transitive. To rob (a person); (now usually) to plunder, loot, or sack (a place), esp. in war.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > sacking, raiding, or looting > sack, raid, or loot [verb (transitive)]
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raid1875
a1593 C. Marlowe Jew of Malta (1633) v. iv To feast my train Within a town of war so lately pillaged, Will be too costly, and too troublesome.
a1640 P. Massinger & J. Fletcher Very Woman v. v. 35 in P. Massinger 3 New Playes (1655) We were boarded, pillag'd to the skin, and after Twice sold for slaves.
1678 A. Lovell tr. La Fontaine Mil. Duties Cavalry 62 Not daring to make courses and inrodes to waste and pillage it.
1765 O. Goldsmith Ess. Pref. p. v Our modern compilers..think it their undoubted right to pillage the dead.
1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 334 They pillaged the crown of its ornaments, the churches of their plate, and the people of their personal decorations. View more context for this quotation
1813 R. Wilson Private Diary (1861) II. 210 This is an old town,..poverty-struck by the war, pillaged by the passing enemy.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People iii. §5. 140 His armed retainers pillaged the markets.
1942 Times (Weekly ed.) 2 Dec. 12 German barbarians pillaged Mikhailskoye collective farm.
2002 Hist. Today June 16/3 In an orgy of revenge, the King's men occupied and pillaged the lands of anyone suspected of supporting Montfort's regime.
2. intransitive. To commit indiscriminate robbery; to take property by force; to plunder. Also figurative.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > sacking, raiding, or looting > sack, raid, or loot [verb (intransitive)]
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1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 46 Eyther to hang at Tyborne, or pillage and reprizall where he may.
1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 26 You may stow the men, rifle, pillage, or sacke, and crye a prize.
1707 tr. Birac in Art of War i. xiii. 43 There are also Ambushes laid..to Surprize Forragers, or such as go Abroad to Pillage.
1764 N. Hooke Rom. Hist. III. viii. viii. 269 Gabinus, Scaurus, and others..enriched themselves by pillaging without reserve.
1811 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) VIII. 6 I will not allow the soldiers to pillage.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xiv. 417 They were suffered to pillage wherever they went.
1920 T. S. Eliot Sacred Wood 57 When he [sc. Dante] came to the Commedia he knew how to pillage right and left.
1992 Matrix Fall 29/1 You should just be allowed to pillage and pilfer.
3. transitive. To take, seize, or carry off (property) as booty, esp. by force; to appropriate wrongfully; to steal.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > spoliation or depredation > despoil or prey upon [verb (transitive)] > make a spoil of (something)
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1600 C. Leigh in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) III. 196 I..tooke away from our men whatsoeuer they had pillaged, and gaue it..to the owners.
1670 W. Simpson Hydrol. Ess. 11 Those four wayes of imbibitions..are pillag'd out of Dr. French his book.
1764 O. Goldsmith Traveller 19 The wealth..Pillag'd from slaves, to purchase slaves at home.
1789 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) III. 98 Hoping to pillage something in the wreck of their country.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xvii. 55 Every thing that was given to others seemed to him to be pillaged from himself.
1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker xiv. 226 A prize temperance story, pillaged (to judge by the stamp) from an Anglo-Indian circulating library.
1931 M. Kahn Djuka i. 23 In the village were found silver spoons pillaged from the estates.
1996 L. Al-Hafidh et al. Europe: Rough Guide (ed. 3) ii. xiv. 769 A massive [bronze] 28m high, said to be cast out of metal pillaged from the Pantheon roof in 1633.
Derivatives
ˈpillageable adj. that may be pillaged.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > spoliation or depredation > [adjective] > despoiled > able to be
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1875 H. G. Liddell & R. Scott Greek Lex. 834/1 Hence in genl. pilleageable property.
1995 Harvard Stud. Classical Philol. 97 166 The occupiers still left intact a relatively staggering amount of pillage-able sculpture.
ˈpillaged adj. and n.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > spoliation or depredation > [adjective] > despoiled
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1629 tr. S. Pelegromius Descr. S'hertogenbosh 5 They might build vp againe their pillaged and ruined Houses.
1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 152. ⁋3 The Devastation of Countries, the Misery of Inhabitants, the Cries of the Pillaged.
1801 Asiatic Ann. Reg. 1800 Misc. Tracts 150/2 A man who had come to his pillaged hut.
1990 Sci. News 22 Dec. 392/2 The pillaged site once housed members of the Mimbres culture.
pillaˈgee n. a person who is pillaged.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > sacking, raiding, or looting > [noun] > one who is pillaged, etc.
pillagee1856
1856 T. De Quincey in Titan Mag. July 93/2 He urged his friend by marrying to enrol himself as a pillagee elect.
2001 Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (Nexis) 27 Jan. 8 e It has been speculated that some prospective pillagees decapitated themselves.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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