a. [f. L. spoliāt-, ppl. stem of spoliāre to spoil, or a. F. spoliative: see SPOLIATE v. and -IVE.]

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  1.  Spoliatory. rare–1.

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1875.  Contemp. Rev., XXV. 190. Political economists … have met all practical inferences of a subversive or spoliative tendency by [etc.].

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  2.  Med. Having the effect of seriously diminishing the amount of the blood.

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1876.  Bartholow, Mat. Med. (1879), 466. This is a powerfully spoliative and depressing emetic.

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1898.  P. Manson, Trop. Diseases, x. 293. There was a time when, under a spoliative treatment, by bleeding and calomel, dysentery proved a very fatal disease indeed.

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