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expilare

1 expĭlare [CL] , to depilate, remove hair from. equus ille ~atus emarcuit et usque ad interitum suum elanguit, nec operis ullius usui aptus fuit J. Furness Walth. 76.
2 expīlare [CL] 1 to plunder, rob. ~atam, aþryid, arytrid GlC E 400; terra ‥ ita ‥ Turchis sevientibus ~ata ut vix ‥ alimoniam ministrare sufficeret W. Malm. GR IV 357; omnes bulgias et manticas efferri coram et ~ari imperavit Id. GP I 50 p. 95; 1166 novorum aliquid que in ~atis invenitis armariis [cf. Cic. Clu. 64. 181] J. Sal. Ep. 199 (185); componitur etiam ~o, -as, i. diripere ‥ et inde expilator, expilatio Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 418; 1257 bona ecclesiarum diripere, diminuere, vel aliter ~are Conc. Syn. 536. 2 (leg.) to deprive (of inheritance). quisquis patrimonium suum dilapidaverat alienamve hereditatem ~averat Lib. Eli. III 52 p. 297; de crimine ~ate hereditatis Vac. Lib. paup. 198. 3 to remove (also fig.). testule ovi interior tela, que quandoque unguinum preacumine vix pre sui teneritudine de testula confracta ~atur R. Cold. Godr. 112; expilat mundus oculos, caro lubrica mentem / glutinat, hanc Sathanae retia multa trahunt Garl. Tri. Eccl. 120.

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