empt

Verb

empt (third-person singular simple present empts, present participle empting, simple past and past participle empted)

1. (obsolete) To empty.
   • Because under all the Obligations and Causes herein, the Church ought to empt the Sees of such Incumbents, that are dangerous to the Civil State, by Acts of Separation properly Ecclesiastical, and so it doth; the Dean and Chapter of the Metropolitical Church taking the Jurisdiction, till the...1705, A Collection of State Tracts, Publish'd on Occasion of the Late Revolution in 1688, page 653
   • or, still un-happier, has it gone the way of every copy of its elder brother the Mentz Donatus, of which scarcely a fragment, a ci gít, remains to bless the eyes and empt the pockets of the curious and " keen collector ?."1831, Henry Cotton, A Typographical Gazetteer - Page 1, Issue 214, page 171