Meanings
adjectiveempight (not comparable)
- not comparableobsoletepoeticfixed; settled, placed or fastened
The wicked steele stayd not till it did light In his left thigh, and deepely did it thrill; Exceeding griefe that wound in him empight
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
Origin
From em- + pight (“pitched, fixed”).
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