emplead
English
Etymology
en- + plead: compare Old French emplaidier (en- + plaidier).
Verb
emplead (third-person singular simple present empleads, present participle empleading, simple past and past participle empleaded)
- (archaic, transitive) To accuse; to indict.
Related terms
- implead
- plead
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for emplead in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams
- empaled
Spanish
Verb
emplead
- (Spain) Informal second-person plural (vosotros or vosotras) affirmative imperative form of emplear.