empight
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From em- + pight (“pitched, fixed”).
Adjective
[edit]empight (not comparable)
- (obsolete) fixed; settled; fastened
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- The wicked steele stayd not till it did light
In his left thigh, and deepely did it thrill;
Exceeding griefe that wound in him empight
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “empight”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)