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empight

empight adjective: fixed; settled, placed or fastened.

Adjective

empight (not comparable)

  1. (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 empight1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin of empight

From em- + pight (“pitched, fixed”).

Questions about empight

What does empight mean?
Empight means fixed; settled, placed or fastened.
What part of speech is empight?
Empight is an adjective.

Words near empight in the dictionary

  1. empierced
  2. empiercement
  3. empierces
  4. empiercing
  5. empiernado
  6. empight
  7. emping
  8. empire
  9. Empire Bay
  10. Empire biscuit
  11. Empire biscuits

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