Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To fill with venom; embitter.
- transitive verb Archaic To poison.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To poison; affect with or as if with poison; act noxiously upon; embitter.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To poison; to impoison.
- noun obsolete Poison.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete
poison
Etymologies
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Examples
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That these disdaineous females and this ferocious old woman are placed here by the administration, not only to empoison the voyagers, but to affront them!
Mugby Junction 2007
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That these disdaineous females and this ferocious old woman are placed here by the administration, not only to empoison the voyagers, but to affront them!
Mugby Junction 2007
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Of this venom the Jews had let seek of one of their friends for to empoison all Christianity, as I have heard them say in their confession before their dying: but thanked be Almighty God! they failed of their purpose; but always they make great mortality of people.
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The pest killeth but the bodies, but such abominable imposters empoison our very souls.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The pest killeth but the bodies, but such abominable imposters empoison our very souls.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Upon this Antipater, his son, had great desire to come to the realm, and was accused that he had made ready venom for to empoison his father, for a maid, a servant, afterward showed the same venom to the king, wherefore he did do put his son Antipater in prison.
The Golden Legend, vol. 2 1230-1298 1900
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In conclusion, hoping to prevent any rapprochement between her and the regent, he warned her that Albany would most certainly be king if the king were not well guarded, "for the Frenchmen can empoison one, and yet he shall not die for a year after."
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Mlle. Brimborion remembered that she had always warned "Mr. Jack" that this woman would "empoison" him.
Tales of the Argonauts Bret Harte 1869
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My fantasies and speculations cannot injure you, my brother; your whiskey shall not empoison me.
The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales Bret Harte 1869
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That these disdaineous females and this ferocious old woman are placed here by the administration, not only to empoison the voyagers, but to affront them!
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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