Ĕx'pi-lā'tion, n.

n. [Lat. expilatio, from expilare, to pillage, plunder, from ex, out of, from, and pilare, to deprive of hair, to plunder, from pilus, hair; Fr. expilation, It. espilazione.] The act of expilating or stripping off; plunder; pillage; waste. [Obs.] “This ravenous expilation of the state.” Daniel.