Spoliate

spō′li-āt, v.t. to spoil, to plunder, to pillage.— v.i. to practise robbery.— ns. Spō′liary , the place in a Roman amphitheatre where the bodies of slaughtered gladiators were dragged to be stripped; Spoliā′tion , act of spoiling: robbery.— adj. Spō′liātive , serving to take away or diminish.— n. Spō′liātor , one who spoliates.— adj. Spō′liātory , tending to spoil: destructive.— n. Spō′lium , the property of a beneficed ecclesiastic not transmi ible by will. [L. spoliatus , pa.p. of spoliāre — spolium , spoil.]