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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Tending to take away or diminish; specifically, in medicine, lessening the mass of the blood.

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  1. adj. Serving to take away, diminish, or rob.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Serving to take away, diminish, or rob; esp. (Med.), serving to diminish sensibly the amount of blood in the body.

Etymologies

  1. Compare French spoliatif. (Wiktionary)

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  • “‘spoliative Sciron’; Alcidamas of ‘a toy for poetry’ and ‘the witlessness of nature’, and says”

    Rhetoric

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