impoisoner

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noun

A poisoner.

OriginMiddle English empoisonere →
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Meanings

nounimpoisoner (plural impoisoners)

plural impoisoners

  1. obsoleteA poisoner.

    From my exceſſe of moyſture, vvith ſuch coſt, / And can you yeeld no other retribution, / But to deuoure your maker, pandar, ſponge, / Impoyſner, all grovvne barren?

    c. 1607–1621 (date written), [Francis Beaumont; John Fletcher; Philip Massinger], The Tragedy of Thierry King of France, and His Brother Theodoret. […], London: […] [Nicholas Okes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1621, →OCLC, Act II, scene i, signature D2, recto

Origin

  1. Middle Englishempoisonere
  2. Englishimpoisoner

From Middle English empoisonere, equivalent to impoison + -er.

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APA

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Chicago

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