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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

empight en · ADJ

Etymology

From em- + pight (“pitched, fixed”).

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, obsolete, poetic) fixed; settled, placed or fastened
    • 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 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC: