But go thou to the temple of Minerva the pillager, with victims, having assembled the matrons of distinction.
The Crown Prince has been pictured as a libertine and a pillager.
I appear as the benefactor, and not as the pillager, of the Indians.
This seems to refer to the profession of brigand and pillager.
I have buried beloved dead on this journey and I have surrendered all my substance to a pillager.
He had made a pillager's nest for himself, and he died like a pillager, abandoned even by those who were dear to him.
Several treaties were afterward made with the Chippewa and pillager Indians, merely changing or reducing their reservation.
Is she a poacher, a pillager of other's property, or a genuine huntress?
You are the Eletto of Aalst, the pillager of cities, and this cannot be swept aside as easily as the dust from the floor.
late 14c., "act of plundering" (especially in war), from Old French pilage (14c.) "plunder," from pillier "to plunder, loot, ill-treat," possibly from Vulgar Latin *piliare "to plunder," probably from a figurative use of Latin pilare "to strip of hair," perhaps also meaning "to skin" (cf. figurative extension of verbs pluck, fleece), from pilus "a hair" (see pile (n.3)).
"plunder, despoil," 1590s, from pillage (n.). Related: Pillaged; pillaging. The earlier verb in English was simply pill (late Old English), which probably is from Latin pilare.
To eat voraciously or steal food: pillaged the office fridge when no one was looking