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emparl

emparl is the alternative form of imparl.

Meaning of imparl

Verb

imparl (third-person singular simple present imparls, present participle imparling, simple past and past participle imparled)

  1. (obsolete) To hold discourse; to parley.
    • These requests and persuasions by Hersilia, and other the Sabine women being heard, both the armies stayed, and held every body his hand, and straight the two generals imparled together, during which parle they brought their husbands and their children, to their fathers and their bretheren.1579-1603, Thomas North, Plutarch's Lives
  2. To have time before pleading; to obtain a delay for mutual adjustment.
    • And the aforesaid Francis thereupon craveth leave to imparl; and he hath it.c. 1767, George Cooke, quoted in William Blackstone, The Oxford Edition of Blackstone - Commentaries on the Laws of England: Book II: Of the right of things, edited by Simon Stern, Oxford University...

Forms of emparl

third-person singular presentemparls
present participleemparling
past participleemparled
pastemparled

Questions about emparl

What is emparl the alternative form of?
Emparl is the alternative form of imparl.

Words near emparl in the dictionary

  1. empark
  2. emparked
  3. emparking
  4. emparkment
  5. emparks
  6. emparl
  7. emparlance
  8. emparlances
  9. emparled
  10. emparling
  11. emparls

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