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empanoply

Syllables: em·pa·no·ply/ɪmˈpænəpli/

empanoply verb: to dress in a full suit of armour; to panoply.

empanoply: to dress in a full suit of armour; to panoply
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Verb

empanoply (third-person singular simple present empanoplies, present participle empanoplying, simple past and past participle empanoplied)

  1. (UK, also, figuratively, historical, transitive) To dress in a full suit of armour; to panoply.
    • I see, I see, empanoply'd in arms, / (Rapt with prophetic fire, sage Chiron cried), / O'er Phrygian plains wide hurling war's alarms, / Thy son, O Thetis, rise, his country's pride.1784, William R[obert] Spencer, “Chorus from the Iphigenia in Aulis of Euripides. Written at Harrow School, in the Year 1784.”, in Poems by the Late Hon. William R. Spencer; […], new edition, London...
    • The grand conglomerate hills of Araby, / That stand empanoplied in utmost thought, / With dazzling ramparts front the Indian sea, / Down there in Hadramaut.1876, “Night the Sixth. [Hadramaut.]”, in The Echo Club, and Other Literary Diversions, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC, page...

Examples of empanoply in a sentence

  • Oh, lovely are her [Paddington Station's] lean lines, and lovely her poise, / Empanoplying the long, dim frenzy of noise.1912, Thomas Burke, “Paddington”, in Pavements and Pastures: A Book of Songs, London: Printed by the London and Norwich Press, →OCLC...
  • He was marvelling anew, no doubt, as he was presently to express it to the tribunal, that Satan should be permitted so admirably and deceptively to empanoply his servants.1928, Rafael Sabatini, “The Holy Office”, in The Hounds of God: A Romance, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin and Company […]...

Forms of empanoply

third-person singular presentempanoplies
present participleempanoplying
past participleempanoplied
pastempanoplied

Origin of empanoply

From em- (prefix meaning ‘on, onto; covered’) + panoply (“complete set of armour”); panoply is derived from Ancient Greek πᾰνοπλῐ́ᾱ (pănoplĭ́ā, “suit of armour”), from πάνοπλος (pánoplos, “in full armour”) (from παν- (pan-, prefix meaning ‘all, every’) + ὅπλον (hóplon, “armour; arms, weapons”)) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, suffix forming feminine abstract nouns).

Words formed from empanoply

Questions about empanoply

What does empanoply mean?
Empanoply means to dress in a full suit of armour; to panoply.
How do you use empanoply in a sentence?
Oh, lovely are her [Paddington Station's] lean lines, and lovely her poise, / Empanoplying the long, dim frenzy of noise.
What part of speech is empanoply?
Empanoply is a verb.
How do you pronounce empanoply?
Empanoply is pronounced /ɪmˈpænəpli/ (UK).
What is the past tense of empanoply?
The past tense of empanoply is empanoplied.

Words near empanoply in the dictionary

  1. empannelled
  2. empannelling
  3. empannels
  4. empanoplied
  5. empanoplies
  6. empanoply
  7. empanoplying
  8. emparadise
  9. emparadised
  10. emparadises
  11. emparadising

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