poverishv.

Brit.

/ˈpɒv(ə)rɪʃ/, U.S.

/ˈpɑv(ə)rɪʃ/, Scottish English

/ˈpɔv(ə)rɪʃ/

Forms: Middle English porissh, Middle English poueresh, Middle English pouerysh, Middle English pouressh, Middle English poveressh, Middle English poveryssh, 1500s pofferessh, 1500s poueryssh, 1500s pouryshe, 1500s–1600s pouerish, 1500s–1600s 1900s– poverish; also Scottish 1800s povereeze, 1800s– povereese, 1900s– poverise.

Origin: Apparently either (i) formed within English, by derivation. Or (ii) formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Or (iii) a borrowing from French. Etymons: poor adj., -ish suffix²; French appovriss-, appovrir; French empovriss-, empovrir; French pouveriss-, pouverir.

Etymology: Apparently either < poor adj. (see forms at that entry) + -ish suffix², or shortened < Middle French appovriss-, extended stem of appovrir to make poor, to become poor (12th cent. in Old French; French appauvrir ; < a- (see a- prefix⁵) + povre poor adj.), or shortened < Middle French empovriss-, extended stem of empovrir (see impoverish v.), or < Middle French pouveriss-, extended stem of pouverir (rare: see poor v.); compare -ish suffix². In later use perhaps shortened < impoverish v. Compare earlier poor v.

Now chiefly Scottish.

transitive. To make poor, impoverish.

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the mind > possession > poverty > make poor or impoverish [verb (transitive)]

destroy1297

poverisha1382

apoora1400

impover1418

poora1425

dispurveyc1430

impoverish1440

beggar1528

weaken1530

ruinate1547

ruin1560

depauper1562

depoverish1569

craze1573

soak1577

sift1591

waste1599

impoor1613

uncluea1616

depauperate1623

disenrich1647

necessitate1647

erumnate1676

straiten1699

poorify1711

pauperize1806

pauperate1839

pauper1841

to clear out1884

immiserate1956

penny-pincha1961

immiserize1971

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) 2 Esdras v. 18 Forsoþe þe puple gretli was pouerysht [v.r. poueresht; a1425 L.V. maad ful pore; L. attenuatus].

a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) v. 667 Bi whos absence feeblid is Cartage, The contre porisshed [1554 pouerished], brouht to disencres.

1450 in 3rd Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1872) App. 279 in Parl. Papers (C. 673) XXXIII. 337 The kynge's peple and soudeours were put from their Garisons exiled, poverysshed, and distroied.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 663/1 I pouryshe, or make poure, jappouris.

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 276 No violent shower Pouerisht the Land.

1639 Ld. Wariston Diary (1896) 72 The countrie is extremelie poverished.

1871 W. Alexander Johnny Gibb xix. 142 The lave..maun be poverees't wi' sax ouks clockin'.

1924 Swatches o' Hamespun 17 He povereeset the peer, an' fullt his ain pooch.

2006 www.frontpagemag.com 31 Mar. (O.E.D.Archive) If Bushites really wish to poverish the Middle East then why not get rid of all oil well in the regions.

Derivatives

† poverishing n. Obsolete rare

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the mind > possession > poverty > [noun] > becoming or making poor

impoverishing1450

poverishing1484

poverance1529

beggaringa1536

impoverishment1564

poverishment1568

depauperation1664

letdown1768

pauperization1812

depauperization1845

immiserization1942

1484 in J. Gairdner Lett. Reigns of Richard III & Henry VII (1861) I. 84 To the kinges hurt and poveresshinge of his..tenantes.

† poverishment n. Obsolete rare impoverishment, poverty.

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