expilator

English

Etymology

From Latin expilator, from expilare.

Noun

expilator (plural expilators)

  1. (obsolete) One who plunders or pillages.
    • 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial (Penguin 2005, p. 26)
      for which the most barbarous Expilators found the most civill Rhetorick

Latin

Verb

expīlātor

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

References
  • expilator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • expilator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • expilator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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