单词 | spoliation |
释义 | spoliationn. 1. a. The action of spoliating, despoiling, pillaging, or plundering; seizure of goods or property by violent means; depredation, robbery. Also, the condition of being despoiled or pillaged. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > spoliation or depredation > [noun] purchasec1325 ridding1347 riflinga1350 despoilingc1374 preya1375 spoilingc1380 pillagea1393 shavaldrya1400 destrition14.. pillingc1400 pillery1433 spulyieingc1440 rapinea1450 spoliationc1460 depopulation1462 spulyie1464 depredation1483 despoil1483 predationa1500 pilferya1513 pollinga1513 spoil1532 pilling and pollinga1535 pilfering1548 expilation1563 rapt1584 escheat1587 fleecing1593 spoilage1597 depilation1611 manubiary1616 pillaging1629 plundering1632 exspoliation1634 peeling1641 despoliation1658 plunder1661 plunderage1700 spoliage1806 despoilment1822 the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > spoliation or depredation > [noun] > instance of spoilingc1380 reifc1405 depredation1495 riflea1500 spoliation1800 spoilurea1918 c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn l. 2979 What nedith..to make such aray? Sith wee been pese-marchantis, & vse no spoliacioune. c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn l. 1600 Þere nys within our shippis no þing of spoliacioun, But all trewe marchaundise. 1478 Acta Domin. Conc. 3/1 Þe accioun..anent þe spoliacioun of certane gudes pundit and takin be þaim. 1503 in D. Littlejohn Rec. Sheriff Court Aberdeenshire (1904) I. 47 Patrick..persewit thir persones..for the Spoliacioun of xviiixx bollis of atis. 1566 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 481 The manifest piracie and depredatioun committit be certane Scottismen in the pilleing and spoliatioun of thair schippis and gudis. b. transferred. (See quot. 1767.) ΚΠ 1767 B. Gooch Pract. Treat. Wounds I. 233 Robbing the blood too much of its density or red globules,..by some Physicians, is very significantly called, spoliation. c. An act or instance of despoiling or plundering; a robbery; an exaction of a spoliatory nature. ΚΠ 1808 M. L. Weems Life G. Washington (ed. 6) xi. 163 But [they] still continued their spoilations. 1843 J. W. Croker in Croker Papers (1884) II. 421 I believe that there was a more extensive spoliation of papers than we imagined. 1853 C. Kingsley Hypatia I. Pref. p. ix It substituted a fixed and regular spoliation for the fortuitous and arbitrary miseries of savage warfare. 2. a. Ecclesiastical. A writ or suit brought by one incumbent against another holding the same benefice by an illegal or questionable title (see later quots.). ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > ecclesiastical discipline > court > writ > [noun] > about titles or benefices indicavit1607 spoliation1607 1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Ppp4v/2 Spoliation..is a writ, that lyeth for an incumbent, against another incumbent, in case where the right of patronage commeth not in debate. c1613 ( in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 133 The best remedy for your incumbent was..to have a spoliacion in the spirituall court agaynst the preyst that now occupyeth, because he is one disturber. 1767 R. Burn Eccl. Law (ed. 2) III. 342 The same law is, where one telleth the patron that his clerk is dead; whereupon he presents another; there the first incumbent..may have a spoliation against the other. b. The action on the part of one incumbent of depriving another of the emoluments of a benefice. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > benefice > [noun] > one who possesses > who has one > depriving another of revenues of benefice spoliation1726 1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 117 A Benefice is said to be vacant de Facto, and not de Jure, when the Possession thereof is lost by Spoliation or Intrusion. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. iii. vii. 91 Spoliation is an injury done by one clerk or incumbent to another, in taking the fruits of his benefice without any right thereunto, but under a pretended title. 3. Law. The action of destroying a document, or of injuring or tampering with it in such a way as to destroy its value as evidence. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > [noun] > vandalism or iconoclasm spulyiationa1688 book burninga1722 spoliation1752 iconoclasm1797 vandalism1798 biblioclasm1864 skoob1963 trashing1970 vandalizing1979 society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [noun] > concealment of truth > specific subreption1680 spoliation1752 celation1881 1752 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) III. 188 My Lord Chancellor..has acquitted D.D. of all guilt of spoliation, but not of the consequences that may attend the destroying or loss of the deed. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 644 Spoliation of a Ship's Papers. An act which, by the maritime law of every court in Europe, not only excludes further proof, but does, per se, infer condemnation. 4. The action of spoiling, damaging, or injuring. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > [noun] > damaging or injuring spillinga1122 impairment1340 marring1357 damaginga1400 defacingc1400 spoiling1479 violation?c1500 facingc1540 deface1556 defacement1561 infection1563 spoil1575 endamageance1594 damagement1603 mismaking1615 empoisonmenta1626 vitiation1635 vitiating1669 spoilage1815 savaging1858 spoliation1867 mucking about1969 1867 J. Hogg Microscope (ed. 6) i. iii. 220 The structure of many creatures is so delicate, as to require the very greatest care to prevent mutilation, and the consequent spoliation of the specimen. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.c1460 |
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