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† imˈperish, v. Obs.
[Another form of emperish (app. f. OF. empeirer, empirer, perh. associated with perish).]
trans. To impair, injure, make worse.
1494Fabyan Chron. vii. 386 By reason of great plente of rayne whiche in that season fyll..y⊇ bokes were greatly imperisshed. 1545T. Raynalde Byrth Mankynde iv. vi. (1634) 197 Weedes..among the good hearbs, will deforme and imperish the good grace of them. 1586J. Hooker Girald. Irel. in Holinshed II. 44/1 His vertues verie much imperished and blemished. 1603Dekker, etc. Grissil iii. ii. (1841) 41, I thought (by the syntheresis of my soul) I had not been imperished. |