spoil, spoliation, spoilation, despoilation, despoilment, despoliation
(noun) the act of stripping and taking by force
spoliation
(noun) (law) the intentional destruction of a document or an alteration of it that destroys its value as evidence
Source: WordNet® 3.1
spoliation (countable and uncountable, plural spoliations)
(archaic) The act of plundering or spoiling; robbery
Synonyms: deprivation, despoliation
Robbery or plunder in times of war; especially, the authorized act or practice of plundering neutrals at sea.
(legal) The intentional destruction of or tampering with (a document) in such way as to impair evidentiary effect.
• isopointal, positional
Source: Wiktionary
Spo`li*a"tion, n. Etym: [L. spoliatio; cf. F. spoliation. See Spoil, v. t.]
1. The act of plundering; robbery; deprivation; despoliation. Legal spoliation, which will impoverish one part of the community in order to corrupt the remainder. Sir G. C. Lewis.
2. Robbery or plunder in war; especially, the authorized act or practice of plundering neutrals at sea.
3. (Eccl. Law) (a) The act of an incumbent in taking the fruits of his benefice without right, but under a pretended title. Blackstone. (b) A process for possession of a church in a spiritual court.
4. (Law)
Definition: Injury done to a document.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
17 May 2025
(noun) sessile marine coelenterates including solitary and colonial polyps; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
