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impoison

impoison is the obsolete form of empoison.

Meaning of empoison

Verb

empoison (third-person singular simple present empoisons, present participle empoisoning, simple past and past participle empoisoned)

  1. To poison.
    • And therfore who someuer dyned or feested syre Gawayne wold comynly purueye for good fruyte for hym / and soo dyd the quene for to please sir Gawayne / she lete purueye for hym al maner of fruyte /[…]/ and this Pyonel hated syre Gawayne[…]for pure enuy & hate sir Pyonel enpoysond certayn appels for...1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “Tercium”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVIII

Forms of impoison

third-person singular presentimpoisons
present participleimpoisoning
past participleimpoisoned
pastimpoisoned

Origin of impoison

From Middle English impoisounen, empoisounen, from Old French empoisoner, equivalent to im- + poison.

Words formed from impoison

Questions about impoison

What is impoison the obsolete form of?
Impoison is the obsolete form of empoison.

Words near impoison in the dictionary

  1. impocketed
  2. impocketing
  3. impockets
  4. impoetic
  5. impofo
  6. impoison
  7. impoisoned
  8. impoisoner
  9. impoisoners
  10. impoisoning
  11. impoisonment

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Adapted from Wiktionary: impoison (page history and authors); empoison (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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