impierce
English
Alternative forms
- impearce
Etymology
From im- + pierce. Compare empierce.
Verb
impierce (third-person singular simple present impierces, present participle impiercing, simple past and past participle impierced)
- (obsolete) To pierce; to penetrate.
- 1612, Arthur Gorges, The Olympian Catastrophe :
- Or humane harts more inlye to impearce
- 1622, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 22 p. 28:
- The brinish teares drop’d downe, on mine impearced breast,
- 1612, Arthur Gorges, The Olympian Catastrophe :
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 impierce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Anagrams
- epimeric