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verbempierce (third-person singular simple present empierces, present participle empiercing, simple past and past participle empierced)
present singular third person empierces · participle present empiercing · participle past empierced · past empierced
- archaicTo pierce through.
The weapon bright / Taking aduantage of his open iaw, / Ran through his mouth with so importune might, / That deepe emperst his darksome hollow maw [...].
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
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