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despoiling
despoiling, vbl. n. (dɪˈspɔɪlɪŋ) [f. as prec. + -ing1.] 1. The action of the verb despoil; robbing.1552 Huloet, Despoylinge, despoliatio, spoliatio. 1793 Burke Corr. (1844) IV. 143 The despoiling a minister of religion. † 2. Spoil, plunder; esp., the arms or clothes of an enemy, the skin of a beast....
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Recycled (Nektar album)
tells the tale of a nightmarish future in which only "recycled energy" remains, while "Part Two" revolves around more present-day concerns about tourism despoiling
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spulyieing
ˈspulyieing, vbl. n. [f. spulyie v.] Spoiling, despoiling; spoliation.1375 Barbour Bruce xiii. 457 Thai dispendit haly that day In spoulȝeing and riches taking. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 470 Spoylynge, or spolyynge, spoliacio, depredacio. 1647 Extr. Burgh Recs. Stirling 193 The actis and ordinances..anent...
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Readers 'move across lands belonging to someone else,' writes de Certeau, 'like nomads poaching their way across fields they did not write, despoiling
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disporting
▪ I. diˈsporting, vbl. n. [f. disport v. + -ing1.] The action of the verb disport; diversion, amusement; sportive action, gambolling.1561 T. Hoby tr. Castiglione's Courtyer i. B, Their accustomed trade of disportinge and ordinary recreations. 1593 T. Watson Tears of Fancie xxvi. Poems (Arb.) 191 It ...
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despoliation
despoliation (dɪˌspəʊlɪˈeɪʃən) [ad. L. dēspoliātiōn-em, n. of action from dēspoliāre to despoil.] The action of despoiling; despoilment.1657 Phillips, Despoliation, a robbing or spoiling. 1658 Ibid., Dispoliation. 1830 J. G. Strutt Sylva Brit. 136 The Wallace Oak seems destined..to share their fate ...
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Manasses IV, Count of Rethel
He is probably the Count of Rethel who was responsible for despoiling churches in the early reign of Philip II of France.
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spoilure
spoilure rare. (ˈspɔɪljʊə(r)) [f. spoil v.1, after failure.] The act of plundering or despoiling.a 1918 W. Owen Poems (1931) 77 Be slowly lifted up..Great gun..about to curse... Be not withdrawn, dark arm, thy spoilure done. 1928 Daily Sketch 7 Aug. 19/2 Lion, my Lord, this camp was left in your cha...
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Hugh Tyrrel
Despite their earlier friendship Tyrrel and de Lacy quarrelled in 1185: de Lacy accused Tyrrel of despoiling the monastery of Armagh and carrying away
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despoilment
despoilment (dɪˈspɔɪlmənt) [f. despoil v. + -ment. Cf. OF. despoillement, mod.F. dépouillement.] The action of despoiling or fact of being despoiled; spoliation.1822 Moir Stanzas on Infant i, As yet by Earth's despoilment undefaced. 1859 Ld. Broughton Italy II. xii. 4 The first despoilment is..to be...
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Walter de Fulburn
coinage by the issue of the steeping, an inferior version of the standard silver penny (the steepings appear in fact to have been Dutch shillings), and despoiling
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Chickatawbut
colonist Thomas Morton, "Chickatawbut's mother was buried at Passonagessit, and that the Plymouth people, on one of their visits, incurred his enmity by despoiling
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re-become
re-beˈcome, v. [re- 5 a.] intr. (with compl.) To become again.1590 C'tess Pembroke Antonie i. 100 Thy loue with such things nourished..stealingly Retakes his force and re⁓becomes more great. 1599 R. Linche Fount Anc. Fict. K ij, The ægyptians..held that Serpents..by despoiling and vncasing them of t...
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Aedh Ua Raithnen
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A verse of Aedh's is inserted in the Annals of the Four Masters, sub anno 954:
After despoiling of pleasant Ath-cliath/Which sent the foreigners
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The Crimson Stain Mystery
Black
The Phantom Image
The Devil's Symphony
In The Shadow of Death
The Haunting Spectre
The Infernal Fiend
The Tortured Soul
The Restless Spirit
Despoiling
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