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† emˈpight, v. Obs.
Also 4 enpight.
[The pa. tense and pa. pple. of *empitch, f. en- + pitch v.]
1. trans. Fixed in, implanted.
c1400Test. Love i. (1560) 273 b/2 In you is so mokel werking vertues enpight. 1596Spenser F.Q. iii. v. 20 Exceeding griefe that wound in him empight. 1642H. More Song of Soul ii. iii. ii. xlv, Nothing is empight In it. 1746W. Thompson Hymn to May [an imitation of Spenser] xliii, Full suddenly the seeds of joy recure Elastic spring, and force within empight. 1721–1800in Bailey. 1847in Craig; and in mod. Dicts.
2. intr. for refl.
1596Spenser F.Q. ii. iv. 46 He..ere it empight In the meant marke, advaunst his shield atween. |