Obs. rare. [a. L. expīlātor, f. expīlāre: see EXPILATE.]
1. A pillager, plunderer.
1658. Sir T. Browne, Hydriot., iii. 41. For which the most barbarous Expilators found the most civill Rhetorick.
2. Civil Law. One who commits an act of expilation (see EXPILATION 2).
1753. Chambers, Cycl. Supp., s.v., An expilator was looked upon as a greater criminal than a common thief.
