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† emˈperish, v. Obs. rare.
Also 6 emperysshe, emperyshe.
[app. f. F. empirer, on the erroneous analogy of words like embellish; afterwards perh. associated with perish.]
trans. To make worse, impair, enfeeble. Hence emˈperishing ppl. a.
1530Palsgr. 531 It is not utterly marred, but it is sore emperysshed. 1545T. Raynalde Womans Book Y 5 The weedes..wyll defourme and emperysshe the good grace of them. 1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. Feb., I deeme thy braine emperished bee Through rustie elde. 1593Nashe Christ's T. (1613) 68, Rather..then inward emperishing famine should too vntimely inage thee. |