ppl. a. [f. SPOIL v.1]

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  1.  Pillaged, plundered; ravaged. Obs. or arch.

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c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 470. Spoylyd, or spolyyd, spoliatus.

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1550.  T. Lever, Serm. (Arb.), 94. For your charitable pytye of myserable spoiled people.

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1598.  W. Phillip, trans. Linschoten, 191/2. For that a whole day we could see nothing els, but spoyled men set on shore.

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1624.  3rd Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm., 32/2. Theophilus, the poor Bishop of miserable spoiled Llandaff.

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1637.  Marmion, Cupid & Psyche, II. iii. There’s not a man forsaken, Or god, for my sake, that bewayles his deare, Or bathes his spoyled bosome with a teare.

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  absol.  1611.  Bible, Amos v. 9. The Lord … strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong: so that the spoiled shall come against the fortresse.

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  b.  Taken as spoil. rare–1.

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1718.  Pope, Iliad, XVI. 612. What grief … must Glaucus undergo, If these spoil’d arms adorn a Grecian foe!

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  † 2.  Of wood: Stripped of bark. Obs.–1

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c. 1515.  King’s Coll. Cambr., Estimate, Tymbre: Remayneth in store of former provision ynowgh redy spoyled to perfourme all the saide Stalles and Rodelofte.

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  3.  Deprived of good or effective qualities or properties by injury, disease, etc.; damaged, impaired, injured; defective.

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1597.  A. M., trans. Guillemeau’s Fr. Chirurg., 33. How we ought to extirpate the spoylede & superfluouse fingers.

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1837.  Carlyle, Fr. Rev., I. III. iii. Our new Duke d’Orléans…. Never yet made Admiral, and now turning the corner of his fortieth year, with spoiled blood and prospects.

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1856.  Brit. Alm., 94. Spoiled stamps.

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1879.  St. George’s Hosp. Rep., IX. 527. The 6 spoiled eyes were found in 3 males and 3 females.

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  b.  Spoiled five, = spoil-five s.v. SPOIL-.

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1842.  Lever, J. Hinton, xix. The worthy priest … was deep in a game of spoiled five with the farmer.

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  4.  Of persons, esp. children: Injured in character by excessive indulgence, lenience or deference.

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1648.  Hexham, II. s.v. Bedorven, A spoiled child, by giving it his will too much, or by cockering him.

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c. 1779.  Whitefoord Papers (1898), 166. He was … a kind of spoil’d child whom you must humour in all his ways.

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1825.  Scott, Betrothed, iii. Some of the petty resentment of a spoiled domestic.

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1849.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., v. I. 619. The spoiled darling of the court and of the populace.

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1884.  St. James’s Gaz., 9 July, 6/2. Prince Victor Napoleon is, in almost every sense of the term, a spoiled child.

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