manubial

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US/məˈnu.bi.əl/UK/məˈnjuː.bi.əl/

adjective

Taken as or relating to the spoils of war; funded from the spoils of war (especially in the Roman Empire).

Scrabble 12

Meanings

adjectivemanubial (not comparable)
  1. not comparableTaken as or relating to the spoils of war; funded from the spoils of war (especially in the Roman Empire).

    1825, James Elmes, General and Bibliographical Dictionary of the Fine Arts, London: Thomas Tegg, under the entry COLUMN, […] the manubial column was ornamented with trophies and spoils taken from the enemy;

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    Ah where’s thy manubial glory of yore, The hall’s bright bedeckment of beauty?

    1824, T. Jeffery Llewelyn Prichard, “The Sevi-Lan-Gwy”, in Welsh Minstrelsy, London: John and H. L. Hunt, page 170

    The luncheon formed a portion of the manubial stores left behind during the precipitate flight of Sunday, and consisted of preserved tripe—a very delicate dish, reader, I assure you.

    1862, Samuel Phillips Day, chapter 2, in Down South; or, An Englishman’s Experience at the Seat of the American War,, volume 2, London: Hurst and Blackett, page 67

    Perhaps a more significant change can be discerned in the financing of temples and such activities as celebratory games. In the great days of expansion these had been (very often) financed from conquest, they were manubial, derived from spoil or imported wealth.

    1982, Alan Wardman, chapter 4, in Religion and Statecraft among the Romans, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, page 100

    […] the triumphal route […] was tightly packed with manubial temples, one directly upon the next, each permanently evoking a specific general’s victory.

    2006, Katherine E. Welch, “Art and Architecture in the Roman Republic”, in Nathan Rosenstein, Robert Morstein-Marx, editors, A Companion to the Roman Republic, Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, page 502

    Synonyms: looted, plundered

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveTaken as or relating to the spoils of war; funded from the spoils of war (especially in the Roman Empire).

Origin

  1. Latinmanubialis
  2. Englishmanubial

From Latin manubialis from manubiae (“money obtained from the sale of booty, plunder”).

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