impalm
English
Etymology
From im- + palm.
Verb
impalm (third-person singular simple present impalms, present participle impalming, simple past and past participle impalmed)
- (transitive) To grasp or hold in the hand.
- 1807, Joel Barlow, The Columbiad
- Nature herself ( whose grasp of time and place
Deals out duration and impalms all space )
- Nature herself ( whose grasp of time and place
- 1807, Joel Barlow, The Columbiad
References
- impalm in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913