impoisonment
English
Noun
impoisonment (countable and uncountable, plural impoisonments)
- Obsolete form of empoisonment.
- a. 1744, Alexander Pope, A further account of the most deplorable condition of Mr. Edmund Curll, bookseller
- The public is already acquainted with the manner of Mr. Curll's impoisonment by a faithful, though unpolite historian of Grub-street
- a. 1744, Alexander Pope, A further account of the most deplorable condition of Mr. Edmund Curll, bookseller
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 impoisonment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)