单词 | spoilful |
释义 | † ˈspoilful, a. Obs. Also 6 spoylefull. [f. spoil n. + -ful.] Causing or characterized by destruction or pillage; plundering, spoliatory.
1590Spenser F.Q. ii. x. 63 Having oft in batteill vanquished Those spoylefull Picts, and swarming Easterlings. c1611Chapman Iliad viii. 180 And he with spoilful fire had burn'd the fleet, if [etc.]. 1615― Odyss. iii. 437 But thou..too long..Thy goods left free for many a spoilfull guest. 1670Milton Hist. Eng. iv. Wks. 1851 V. 179 As if thir landing had bin at the mouth of Humber, and thir spoilfull march far into the Country. |

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