Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tending to take away or diminish; specifically, in medicine, lessening the mass of the blood.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Serving to take away, diminish, or rob; esp. (Med.), serving to diminish sensibly the amount of blood in the body.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Serving to take away,
diminish , orrob .
Etymologies
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Compare French spoliatif.
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‘spoliative Sciron’; Alcidamas of ‘a toy for poetry’ and ‘the witlessness of nature’, and says
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