empestv.

Brit.

/ɪmˈpɛst/,

/ɛmˈpɛst/, U.S.

/əmˈpɛst/,

/ɛmˈpɛst/

Forms:

α. 1600s– impest.

β. 1600s 1900s– empest.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French empester.

Etymology: < French empester to corrupt (a person) morally (1575 in Middle French), to infect (a person) with a contagious disease, e.g. plague or pestilence (1578) < em- em- prefix + peste pest n.With the α. forms compare im- prefix¹.

Now rare.

transitive. To infect with plague, pestilence, etc. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > plague or pestilence > cause plague or pestilence [verb (transitive)]

plaguec1595

pestilence1598

infect1607

empesta1612

a1612 W. Fowler Wks. (1914) I. 303 An infectioun to impest his holesom bodye.

a1618 J. Sylvester Honor's Farewell in Small Wks. (1620) sig. Hh4 A Soule deuested Of worldly Pomp (which hath the World impested).

1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 7 London being..empested with a..furious contagion.

a1748 C. Pitt Epistles, Imit. Spenser in Poet. Wks. (1782) 49 Ne bitter dole impest the passing gale.

1884 Med. Times & Gaz. 19 July 99/2 Hospitalism spared the Calcutta Medical College Hospital during Dr. Mouat's incumbency and impested it in mine.

1923 A. Huxley Antic Hay v. 76 When two or three are gathered together..they..necessarily empest the air.

1956 J. Lindsay George Meredith viii. 79 Cologne, which is empested by the infernal stink.

2001 G. Alter-Gilbert tr. L. Lugones Strange Forces 28 A smell somewhere between that of phosphate and urine empested the air.

Derivatives

empeˈstation n. rare infection with plague, pestilence, etc.; contagion.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > plague or pestilence > [noun] > infecting with

empestation1844

1844 B. G. Babington tr. J. F. C. Hecker Epidemics Middle Ages (new ed.) 233 It may..be supposed, that they took with them to that city fresh germs of plague... The same attempt at impestation [Ger. derselbe unheilbringende Versuch] had been already often made in earlier times.

1980 J. T. Alexander Bubonic Plague in Early Mod. Russia (2003) i. 11 Some terms implied contagion by roots related to air: for example, morovoe povetrie (pestilential contagion or lethal air),..and zapovetrie (miasm or impestation).

emˈpested adj. infected with plague, pestilence, etc.

ΚΠ

a1774 T. Hollis in F. Blackburne Mem. T. Hollis (1780) I. 41 They threw forty or fifty thousand impested bodies into these Catacombs.

1807 J. Barlow Columbiad vi. 210 See the black Prison Ship's expanding womb Impested thousands, quick and dead, entomb.

1986 Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 34 252 She threatened to visit impested Moscow, a city she loathed (for its rats, among other things).

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	empest
释义	empestv. Brit. /ɪmˈpɛst/, /ɛmˈpɛst/, U.S. /əmˈpɛst/, /ɛmˈpɛst/ Forms: α. 1600s– impest. β. 1600s 1900s– empest. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French empester. Etymology: < French empester to corrupt (a person) morally (1575 in Middle French), to infect (a person) with a contagious disease, e.g. plague or pestilence (1578) < em- em- prefix + peste pest n.With the α. forms compare im- prefix¹. Now rare. transitive. To infect with plague, pestilence, etc. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > plague or pestilence > cause plague or pestilence [verb (transitive)] plaguec1595 pestilence1598 infect1607 empesta1612 a1612 W. Fowler Wks. (1914) I. 303 An infectioun to impest his holesom bodye. a1618 J. Sylvester Honor's Farewell in Small Wks. (1620) sig. Hh4 A Soule deuested Of worldly Pomp (which hath the World impested). 1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 7 London being..empested with a..furious contagion. a1748 C. Pitt Epistles, Imit. Spenser in Poet. Wks. (1782) 49 Ne bitter dole impest the passing gale. 1884 Med. Times & Gaz. 19 July 99/2 Hospitalism spared the Calcutta Medical College Hospital during Dr. Mouat's incumbency and impested it in mine. 1923 A. Huxley Antic Hay v. 76 When two or three are gathered together..they..necessarily empest the air. 1956 J. Lindsay George Meredith viii. 79 Cologne, which is empested by the infernal stink. 2001 G. Alter-Gilbert tr. L. Lugones Strange Forces 28 A smell somewhere between that of phosphate and urine empested the air. Derivatives empeˈstation n. rare infection with plague, pestilence, etc.; contagion. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > plague or pestilence > [noun] > infecting with empestation1844 1844 B. G. Babington tr. J. F. C. Hecker Epidemics Middle Ages (new ed.) 233 It may..be supposed, that they took with them to that city fresh germs of plague... The same attempt at impestation [Ger. derselbe unheilbringende Versuch] had been already often made in earlier times. 1980 J. T. Alexander Bubonic Plague in Early Mod. Russia (2003) i. 11 Some terms implied contagion by roots related to air: for example, morovoe povetrie (pestilential contagion or lethal air),..and zapovetrie (miasm or impestation). emˈpested adj. infected with plague, pestilence, etc. ΚΠ a1774 T. Hollis in F. Blackburne Mem. T. Hollis (1780) I. 41 They threw forty or fifty thousand impested bodies into these Catacombs. 1807 J. Barlow Columbiad vi. 210 See the black Prison Ship's expanding womb Impested thousands, quick and dead, entomb. 1986 Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 34 252 She threatened to visit impested Moscow, a city she loathed (for its rats, among other things). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.a1612
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