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Empoison
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Empoison
EMPOIS'ON
,Verb.
T.
1.
To poison; to administer poison to; to destroy or endanger life by giving or causing to be taken into the stomach any noxious drug or preparation. [In this sense, poison is generally used; but empoison may be used, especially in poetry.]2.
To taint with poison or venom; to render noxious or deleterious by an admixture of poisonous substance. [This may be used, especially in poetry.]Definition 2024
empoison
empoison
English
Verb
empoison (third-person singular simple present empoisons, present participle empoisoning, simple past and past participle empoisoned)
- (obsolete) To poison. [14th-18thc.]
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter Tercium, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVIII:
- And therfore who someuer dyned or feested syre Gawayne wold comynly purueye for good fruyte for hym / and soo dyd the quene for to please sir Gawayne / she lete purueye for hym al maner of fruyte / […] / and this Pyonel hated syre Gawayne […] for pure enuy & hate sir Pyonel enpoysond certayn appels for to enpoysonne sir Gawayn
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, X, lxv:
- She, with sweet words and false enticing smiles, / Infused love among the dainties set, / And with empoison'd cups our souls beguiles, / And made each knight himself and God forget.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.13:
- In Cæsars civill warres, Lutius Domitius taken in Prussia, having empoysoned himselfe, did afterward rue and repent his deede.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter Tercium, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVIII:
Noun
empoison
- (obsolete) poison
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