单词 | pillager |
释义 | pillagern. A person who robs, plunders, loots, or steals. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > robber > spoiler or plunderer > [noun] riflera1350 ravenerc1384 pillerc1385 preyerc1390 raptora1398 peelera1425 despoiler1467 spulyierc1475 pillardc1485 ruggerc1485 pollera1513 booty-fellow1530 spoiler1535 caterpillar1541 kitea1556 ransacker?1576 predator1581 lurdan1589 worm1591 scraper1598 pillager?1611 ravager1611 bird of preya1616 depredator1626 plunderer1639 expilator1658 shark1713 depredationist1828 spoliator1831 rapiner1843 ravisher1851 ?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads iv. 146 Joves seed the pillager, Stood close before, and slackt the force the arrow did confer. 1670 W. Annand Pater Noster v. i. 76 Abraham..armed his servants, and fighting the pillagers, redeemed the prisoners. 1717 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad III. x. 408 Some..nightly Pillager that strips the slain. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xix. 166 He permitted a troop of pillagers..to pass. 1818 S. T. Coleridge Friend (new ed.) I. 156 The power of transporting mediately at least, the Pillagers of his Hedges and Copses. 1882 W. Ballantine Some Exper. Barrister's Life iii. 37 These pillagers of the public had to submit to be pillaged themselves. 1944 S. Putnam tr. E. da Cunha Rebellion in Backlands iii. 173 The jagunço, pillager of cities, thereupon took the place of the garimpeiro, who pillaged the earth. 1995 High Country News 4 Sept. 3/4 Earl Shumway, the notorious pillager of Anasazi burial sites in Utah, has been convicted of looting. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?1611 |
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