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Webster 1913 Edition

Empierce

Em-pierce′

,
Verb.
T.
[Pref.
em-
+
pierce
. Cf.
Impierce
.]
To pierce; to impierce.
[Obs.]
Spenser.

Webster 1828 Edition

Empierce

EMPIERCE

,
Verb.
T.
empers' [em, in, and pierce.] To pierce into; to penetrate. [Not used.]

Definition 2024

empierce

empierce

English

Verb

empierce ‎(third-person singular simple present empierces, present participle empiercing, simple past and past participle empierced)

  1. (now rare) To pierce through.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.xi:
      The weapon bright / Taking aduantage of his open iaw, / Ran through his mouth with so importune might, / That deepe emperst his darksome hollow maw [...].

Etymology

From em- +‎ pierce.

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