empightv.

Brit.

/ɪmˈpʌɪt/,

/ɛmˈpʌɪt/, U.S.

/ᵻmˈpaɪt/,

/ɛmˈpaɪt/

Forms:

α. late Middle English inpyghte (past participle), 1600s impight (past participle).

β. 1500s empight, 1500s enpight (past participle, in print of lost Middle English MS), 1500s– empight (past participle).

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: em- prefix, pight v.

Etymology: < em- prefix + pight v.With the α. forms compare im- prefix¹, and also in- prefix³. On the variation between initial em- and en- in the β. forms see discussion at em- prefix.

Now rare (archaic in later use).

1. transitive (in passive). To be implanted or inserted (literal and figurative); to be fixed in.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > [adjective] > so as to be firmly fixed

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1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) v. lii. sig. lii/1 The knees ben a manere rounde bones, grystlewe & holowe. Holowe & rounde for the legges & whyrlbones sholde be the easelyar inpyghte [a1398 BL Add. ipiȝt] therin.

1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Love in W. W. Skeat Chaucerian & Other Pieces (1897) 10 In you is so mokel werkinge vertues enpight.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. v. sig. Gg3 Exceeding griefe that wound in him empight.

1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island xi. xxix. 153 Yet in her side deep was the wound impight.

1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. K3^v Our listning mind..Doth notice take, but nothing is empight In it.

1746 W. Thompson Hymn to May xl. 22 Full suddenly the seeds of joy recure Elastick spring, and force within empight.

1810 Poet. Mag. 4 202 There is empight a lordly castle fair,..Where doughty Knights their hardihood repair.

a1901 E. J. W. Gibb tr. Sámí in Hist. Ottoman Poetry (1905) IV. ii. 64 O'er thy crystal neck they show them, as 'twere in a glass empight Hyacinth, wall-flower, and rosebud rare, yon curl and mole and cheek.

†2. intransitive. To implant itself; to be inserted. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. iv. sig. Q4 He..ere it empight In the meant marke, aduaunst his shield atweene.

1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. x. sig. V8^v Yet could the Seneschals [spear] no entrance find Into the Princes shield, where it empight .

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

单词	empight
释义	empightv. Brit. /ɪmˈpʌɪt/, /ɛmˈpʌɪt/, U.S. /ᵻmˈpaɪt/, /ɛmˈpaɪt/ Forms: α. late Middle English inpyghte (past participle), 1600s impight (past participle). β. 1500s empight, 1500s enpight (past participle, in print of lost Middle English MS), 1500s– empight (past participle). Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: em- prefix, pight v. Etymology: < em- prefix + pight v.With the α. forms compare im- prefix¹, and also in- prefix³. On the variation between initial em- and en- in the β. forms see discussion at em- prefix. Now rare (archaic in later use). 1. transitive (in passive). To be implanted or inserted (literal and figurative); to be fixed in. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > [adjective] > so as to be firmly fixed empight1495 infixed1552 1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) v. lii. sig. lii/1 The knees ben a manere rounde bones, grystlewe & holowe. Holowe & rounde for the legges & whyrlbones sholde be the easelyar inpyghte [a1398 BL Add. ipiȝt] therin. 1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Love in W. W. Skeat Chaucerian & Other Pieces (1897) 10 In you is so mokel werkinge vertues enpight. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. v. sig. Gg3 Exceeding griefe that wound in him empight. 1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island xi. xxix. 153 Yet in her side deep was the wound impight. 1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. K3^v Our listning mind..Doth notice take, but nothing is empight In it. 1746 W. Thompson Hymn to May xl. 22 Full suddenly the seeds of joy recure Elastick spring, and force within empight. 1810 Poet. Mag. 4 202 There is empight a lordly castle fair,..Where doughty Knights their hardihood repair. a1901 E. J. W. Gibb tr. Sámí in Hist. Ottoman Poetry (1905) IV. ii. 64 O'er thy crystal neck they show them, as 'twere in a glass empight Hyacinth, wall-flower, and rosebud rare, yon curl and mole and cheek. †2. intransitive. To implant itself; to be inserted. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. iv. sig. Q4 He..ere it empight In the meant marke, aduaunst his shield atweene. 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. x. sig. V8^v Yet could the Seneschals [spear] no entrance find Into the Princes shield, where it empight . View more context for this quotation This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1495
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