a. Obs. Also 6 spoylefull. [f. SPOIL sb. + -FUL.] Causing or characterized by destruction or pillage; plundering, spoliatory.
1590. Spenser, F. Q., II. x. 63. Having oft in batteill vanquished Those spoylefull Picts, and swarming Easterlings.
c. 1611. Chapman, Iliad, VIII. 180. And he with spoilful fire had burn’d the fleet, if [etc.]. Ibid. (1615), Odyss., III. 437. But thou … too long … Thy goods left free for many a spoilfull guest.
1670. Milton, 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.
