impalev.

Brit.

/ɪmˈpeɪl/, U.S.

/ᵻmˈpeɪl/

Forms: α. (1500s enpale), 1500s–1800s empale, 1600s empail(e, ( empall, empal). β. 1500s–1600s impal, impayl, ( impall), 1500s– impale, 1600s–1700s impail.

Etymology: < French empale-r (Froissart), < medieval Latin impālāre ‘in palum impingere’ (Du Cange), < im- (im- prefix¹) + pālus stake (compare late Latin pālāre to support with stakes, prop up).

a. transitive. To enclose with pales, stakes, or posts; to surround with a palisade; to fence in. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > build or provide with specific parts [verb (transitive)] > furnish or surround with fence or hedge

haya1050

palea1382

palis?a1400

hain14..

tinec1440

bara1500

mound1515

impale1530

stowerc1555

palisado1607

teen1616

palisade1632

impile1633

cancel1650

wire1691

inrail1714

ring-fence1761

whin-kid1876

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > enclose [verb (transitive)] > with a fence or hedge > with a paling

palea1382

palis?a1400

impale1530

palisado1607

palisade1632

impile1633

α.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 516 Minding to mound and empale his cottage round about with a fence of an hedge.

1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. ii. 73 Their country goeth under the tearme of The English pale, because the first Englishmen..did empale for themselves certaine limits in the East part of the Iland.

a1661 W. Brereton Trav. (1844) 44 I saw a pool empaled wherein were pell-starts.

β. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 590/1 I impale, I close a grounde or a parke with pales, je emparque.1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. iii. vi. §9. 73 The same wall which..had preserued their liues, by holding out the Enemie, did now impale them.1766 M. A. Porny Elem. Heraldry (1777) iv. 64 The Pale denotes Strength and Firmness, and has been bestowed to impaling Cities.1845 T. Hood Fairy Tale 21 So he might impale a strip of soil.

b. transferred and figurative. To surround or enclose as with a palisade; to shut in, hedge about, confine, hem in. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > enclose [verb (transitive)]

beloukOE

pind?c1225

closec1275

beshuta1300

to shut about13..

umbclosec1330

to close about1340

aclosec1350

in close1393

enclose?a1400

tinec1400

concludea1425

includec1425

wallc1430

underclosec1440

inclusea1450

hedgec1500

lista1513

inrail1523

interclude1524

fence1535

parclose1535

riba1547

pale1570

impale1579

embay1582

immure1583

upclosec1590

enchase1591

interclose1592

recinct1598

underfong1599

intermure1606

bound1609

engirt1627

bosom1637

infence1652

cancellate1664

circumclude1677

embosomc1750

comprehend1807

α.

1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 33 Men..that are empaled within the boundes of the Church.

1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion ii. 24 Where Portland..doth ouer-peere the Maine; Her rugged front empal'd (on euery part) with rocks.

1675 N. Grew Compar. Anat. Trunks i. ii. 16 Every single Milk-vessel being empaled or hemmed in with an arch of Lymphæducts.

β. 1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 899/1 Wee must..keepe ourselues stil within the parke wherein God impaled us with his word.1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 100 Welcomed by the Quene, who..impales him in her armes, and cryes for joy.1726 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xix. 519 Bristles high impale his horrid chine.1860 M. F. Maury Physical Geogr. Sea (ed. 8) x. §465 It would have been impaled in a nook of the very drop of water in which it was brought forth.

†c. Military. To enclose or surround (troops) for defence, as with other troops, or with wagons, etc. (Also loosely: to set in array, draw up.) Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > defence > defend [verb (transitive)] > surround for defence

impale1553

society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > [verb (transitive)] > draw up (troops)

raya1387

impale1553

to draw out1587

body1603

to draw up1608

re-form1753

form1816

α.

1553 J. Brende tr. Q. Curtius Rufus Hist. iii. f. 24 Nabarzanes enpaled the battaille on the right hand with a great power of horsmen. and .xxx. thousand Slingers and Archers.

1569 T. Stocker tr. Diodorus Siculus Hist. Successors Alexander iii. ii. 105 He enpaled his Campe with hys carriages.

1578 W. Hunnis Hyue Full of Hunnye Gen. xxiv. 16 Against these five, the other fower Their Battailes did empale.

1643 R. Baker Chron. Kings of Eng. ii. 134 The Battaile..consisted of a thousand Bill-men, empaled with two thousand Pikes.

β. 1579 L. Digges & T. Digges Stratioticos 102 To set his souldyours that the best armed impale the rest.1639 W. Barriffe Mil. Discipline (ed. 2) cx. 329 Impaling the Reere, with the Wagons, Carts, and Baggage.1670 J. Milton Hist. Brit. ii. 65 The Legionaries stood..impal'd with light armed.

2. To surround for adornment; to encircle, as with a crown or garland; to border, edge (with decoration). Obsolete or archaic.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > ornament [verb (transitive)] > tip, edge, or mount

belayc1175

tip1483

impale1553

befringe1611

scallop1749

mount1770

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > surrounding > surround or lie around [verb (transitive)] > for adornment

impale1553

interpalea1657

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > form the edge of [verb (transitive)] > provide with an edge > for adornment

impale1553

α.

1553 J. Brende tr. Q. Curtius Rufus Hist. ix. f. 196 Garmentes of linnen clothe embroydred with golde, and empaled with purple.

1630 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentleman 443 A Crowne of glory shall empale you.

1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica ii. vii. 252 I cannot..empale each Page of this Discourse with a Black mourning Lig.

β. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. xi. f. 163^v Fethers and quilles impaled with golde.1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. L2^v He impald the head of his yong neuew..with the crowne and diadem of Arcadie.1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 69 A Hand..impail'd about with rayes.1860 Ld. Lytton Lucile ii. iv. § i. 126 All the laurels that ever with praise Impaled human brows.

a. Heraldry. To combine (two coats of arms, as those of a husband and wife) by placing them side by side on one shield, separated palewise, i.e. by a vertical line down the middle. (Also said of one coat of arms, with the other as object.)

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > exhibit armorial bearings [verb (transitive)] > combine coats of arms > juxtapose two vertically

impale1605

α.

1623 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. (ed. 2) vii. v. 212/2 Their..marriages are made knowne by the sculpture of an hand in hand, and the coat-armes of the parties empaled.

1725 London Gaz. No. 6382/3 The Escocheon of the Arms of the Order empaling those of the Sovereign.

1872 O. Shipley Gloss. Eccl. Terms at Arms A bishop empales his family coat-of-arms with the arms of his see.

β. 1605 W. Camden Remaines i. 165 The impaling of his Armes with the Armes of Saint Edward.1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie vi. ii. 257 Receiued as an augmentation of honour..impaled with her paternall Coat.1787 ‘M. A. Porny’ Elements Heraldry (ed. 4) 1866 J. E. Cussans Gram. Heraldry 54 Should the wife..be an heiress.., the husband does not impale her arms.

†b. figurative. To place side by side (for comparison, or as being equal in dignity). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > comparison > compare [verb (transitive)] > equate in value

evenOE

parifyc1487

value1560

equalize1599

equal1607

impale1647

equiparate1671

analogize1801

equate1840

par1878

1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 309 I have thus impaled these three that the Reader may the better discerne how they relate each to other.

1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. i. 34 The Admission of St. Patrick..to be match'd and impaled with the Blessed Virgin in the Honour thereof.

1659 H. L'Estrange Alliance Divine Offices Pref. sig. *4^v You may view them in one scheam..as they stand impaled.

a. To thrust a pointed stake through the body of, as a form of torture or capital punishment; to fix upon a stake thrust up through the body.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > torture > [verb (transitive)] > impale or picket

impale1613

picket1730

α.

1678 R. L'Estrange tr. Of Happy Life xiii. 171 in Seneca's Morals Abstracted (1679) Wild Beasts to devour us; Stakes to Empale us.

1713 J. Addison Cato iii. v Let them..be..empal'd and left To writhe at leisure round the bloody stake.

β. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 389 He impaled this Caragoses in the way on a sharpe stake fastened in the ground.1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 100 (note) To be impaled is to have a stake thrust thorough the fundament and to come out of the mouth.1668 London Gaz. No. 286/3 The Visier..caused the Greek to be impalled.1828 G. W. Bridges Ann. Jamaica II. xv. 205 In a general massacre of the whites some were impaled by the savage hands of their own domestic slaves.1859 Ld. Tennyson Vivien in Idylls of King 123 The King impaled him for his piracy.

b. transferred. To transfix upon, or pierce through with, anything pointed; figurative to torment or render helpless as if transfixed.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > making holes or becoming holed > make (an opening or hole) [verb (transitive)] > make an opening or hole in or into > bore, pierce, or perforate > with something sharp-pointed > transfix

through-driveOE

through-nimc1275

stickc1330

through-piercec1330

to stick througha1382

preenc1390

spitc1430

thirlc1450

broacha1470

prickc1475

to stick up1528

transfix1590

fix1638

bestick1667

impalea1678

spiculate1835

skewer1837

to strike through1893

a1678 A. Marvell Soul & Body in Misc. Poems (1681) 13 This Tyrannic soul, Which, stretcht upright, impales me so.

1807 R. Wilson Jrnl. 27 Aug. in Life Gen. Sir R. Wilson (1862) II. 363 The falcon often impales himself on the long and sharp beak [of the heron].

1878 S. Smiles Robert Dick v. 45 Impaling it with a pin.

c. figurative. To transfix (a person) with one's gaze.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (transitive)] > stare or gaze at > in the face

to look (a person, etc.) in the facec1400

to stare (a person) in the face1510

to fix (a person) with one's eyes1792

envisage1820

fasten1870

impale1877

1877 My Mother-in-Law vi. 60 Mrs. Pinkerton devoted herself to impaling me with her eyes once in a while.

1903 Critic (N.Y.) Oct. 349/2 There was an impaling fierceness in his eyes.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	impale
释义	impalev. Brit. /ɪmˈpeɪl/, U.S. /ᵻmˈpeɪl/ Forms: α. (1500s enpale), 1500s–1800s empale, 1600s empail(e, ( empall, empal). β. 1500s–1600s impal, impayl, ( impall), 1500s– impale, 1600s–1700s impail. Etymology: < French empale-r (Froissart), < medieval Latin impālāre ‘in palum impingere’ (Du Cange), < im- (im- prefix¹) + pālus stake (compare late Latin pālāre to support with stakes, prop up). 1. a. transitive. To enclose with pales, stakes, or posts; to surround with a palisade; to fence in. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > build or provide with specific parts [verb (transitive)] > furnish or surround with fence or hedge haya1050 palea1382 palis?a1400 hain14.. tinec1440 bara1500 mound1515 impale1530 stowerc1555 palisado1607 teen1616 palisade1632 impile1633 cancel1650 wire1691 inrail1714 ring-fence1761 whin-kid1876 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > enclose [verb (transitive)] > with a fence or hedge > with a paling palea1382 palis?a1400 impale1530 palisado1607 palisade1632 impile1633 α. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 516 Minding to mound and empale his cottage round about with a fence of an hedge. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. ii. 73 Their country goeth under the tearme of The English pale, because the first Englishmen..did empale for themselves certaine limits in the East part of the Iland. a1661 W. Brereton Trav. (1844) 44 I saw a pool empaled wherein were pell-starts. β. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 590/1 I impale, I close a grounde or a parke with pales, je emparque.1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. iii. vi. §9. 73 The same wall which..had preserued their liues, by holding out the Enemie, did now impale them.1766 M. A. Porny Elem. Heraldry (1777) iv. 64 The Pale denotes Strength and Firmness, and has been bestowed to impaling Cities.1845 T. Hood Fairy Tale 21 So he might impale a strip of soil. b. transferred and figurative. To surround or enclose as with a palisade; to shut in, hedge about, confine, hem in. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > enclose [verb (transitive)] beloukOE pind?c1225 closec1275 beshuta1300 to shut about13.. umbclosec1330 to close about1340 aclosec1350 in close1393 enclose?a1400 tinec1400 concludea1425 includec1425 wallc1430 underclosec1440 inclusea1450 hedgec1500 lista1513 inrail1523 interclude1524 fence1535 parclose1535 riba1547 pale1570 impale1579 embay1582 immure1583 upclosec1590 enchase1591 interclose1592 recinct1598 underfong1599 intermure1606 bound1609 engirt1627 bosom1637 infence1652 cancellate1664 circumclude1677 embosomc1750 comprehend1807 α. 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 33 Men..that are empaled within the boundes of the Church. 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion ii. 24 Where Portland..doth ouer-peere the Maine; Her rugged front empal'd (on euery part) with rocks. 1675 N. Grew Compar. Anat. Trunks i. ii. 16 Every single Milk-vessel being empaled or hemmed in with an arch of Lymphæducts. β. 1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 899/1 Wee must..keepe ourselues stil within the parke wherein God impaled us with his word.1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 100 Welcomed by the Quene, who..impales him in her armes, and cryes for joy.1726 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xix. 519 Bristles high impale his horrid chine.1860 M. F. Maury Physical Geogr. Sea (ed. 8) x. §465 It would have been impaled in a nook of the very drop of water in which it was brought forth. †c. Military. To enclose or surround (troops) for defence, as with other troops, or with wagons, etc. (Also loosely: to set in array, draw up.) Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defend [verb (transitive)] > surround for defence impale1553 society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > [verb (transitive)] > draw up (troops) raya1387 impale1553 to draw out1587 body1603 to draw up1608 re-form1753 form1816 α. 1553 J. Brende tr. Q. Curtius Rufus Hist. iii. f. 24 Nabarzanes enpaled the battaille on the right hand with a great power of horsmen. and .xxx. thousand Slingers and Archers. 1569 T. Stocker tr. Diodorus Siculus Hist. Successors Alexander iii. ii. 105 He enpaled his Campe with hys carriages. 1578 W. Hunnis Hyue Full of Hunnye Gen. xxiv. 16 Against these five, the other fower Their Battailes did empale. 1643 R. Baker Chron. Kings of Eng. ii. 134 The Battaile..consisted of a thousand Bill-men, empaled with two thousand Pikes. β. 1579 L. Digges & T. Digges Stratioticos 102 To set his souldyours that the best armed impale the rest.1639 W. Barriffe Mil. Discipline (ed. 2) cx. 329 Impaling the Reere, with the Wagons, Carts, and Baggage.1670 J. Milton Hist. Brit. ii. 65 The Legionaries stood..impal'd with light armed. 2. To surround for adornment; to encircle, as with a crown or garland; to border, edge (with decoration). Obsolete or archaic. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > ornament [verb (transitive)] > tip, edge, or mount belayc1175 tip1483 impale1553 befringe1611 scallop1749 mount1770 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > surrounding > surround or lie around [verb (transitive)] > for adornment impale1553 interpalea1657 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > form the edge of [verb (transitive)] > provide with an edge > for adornment impale1553 α. 1553 J. Brende tr. Q. Curtius Rufus Hist. ix. f. 196 Garmentes of linnen clothe embroydred with golde, and empaled with purple. 1630 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentleman 443 A Crowne of glory shall empale you. 1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica ii. vii. 252 I cannot..empale each Page of this Discourse with a Black mourning Lig. β. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. xi. f. 163^v Fethers and quilles impaled with golde.1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. L2^v He impald the head of his yong neuew..with the crowne and diadem of Arcadie.1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 69 A Hand..impail'd about with rayes.1860 Ld. Lytton Lucile ii. iv. § i. 126 All the laurels that ever with praise Impaled human brows. 3. a. Heraldry. To combine (two coats of arms, as those of a husband and wife) by placing them side by side on one shield, separated palewise, i.e. by a vertical line down the middle. (Also said of one coat of arms, with the other as object.) ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > exhibit armorial bearings [verb (transitive)] > combine coats of arms > juxtapose two vertically impale1605 α. 1623 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. (ed. 2) vii. v. 212/2 Their..marriages are made knowne by the sculpture of an hand in hand, and the coat-armes of the parties empaled. 1725 London Gaz. No. 6382/3 The Escocheon of the Arms of the Order empaling those of the Sovereign. 1872 O. Shipley Gloss. Eccl. Terms at Arms A bishop empales his family coat-of-arms with the arms of his see. β. 1605 W. Camden Remaines i. 165 The impaling of his Armes with the Armes of Saint Edward.1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie vi. ii. 257 Receiued as an augmentation of honour..impaled with her paternall Coat.1787 ‘M. A. Porny’ Elements Heraldry (ed. 4) 1866 J. E. Cussans Gram. Heraldry 54 Should the wife..be an heiress.., the husband does not impale her arms. †b. figurative. To place side by side (for comparison, or as being equal in dignity). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > comparison > compare [verb (transitive)] > equate in value evenOE parifyc1487 value1560 equalize1599 equal1607 impale1647 equiparate1671 analogize1801 equate1840 par1878 1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 309 I have thus impaled these three that the Reader may the better discerne how they relate each to other. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. i. 34 The Admission of St. Patrick..to be match'd and impaled with the Blessed Virgin in the Honour thereof. 1659 H. L'Estrange Alliance Divine Offices Pref. sig. 4^v You may view them in one scheam..as they stand impaled. 4. a. To thrust a pointed stake through the body of, as a form of torture or capital punishment; to fix upon a stake thrust up through the body. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > torture > [verb (transitive)] > impale or picket impale1613 picket1730 α. 1678 R. L'Estrange tr. Of Happy Life* xiii. 171 in Seneca's Morals Abstracted (1679) Wild Beasts to devour us; Stakes to Empale us. 1713 J. Addison Cato iii. v Let them..be..empal'd and left To writhe at leisure round the bloody stake. β. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 389 He impaled this Caragoses in the way on a sharpe stake fastened in the ground.1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 100 (note) To be impaled is to have a stake thrust thorough the fundament and to come out of the mouth.1668 London Gaz. No. 286/3 The Visier..caused the Greek to be impalled.1828 G. W. Bridges Ann. Jamaica II. xv. 205 In a general massacre of the whites some were impaled by the savage hands of their own domestic slaves.1859 Ld. Tennyson Vivien in Idylls of King 123 The King impaled him for his piracy. b. transferred. To transfix upon, or pierce through with, anything pointed; figurative to torment or render helpless as if transfixed. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > making holes or becoming holed > make (an opening or hole) [verb (transitive)] > make an opening or hole in or into > bore, pierce, or perforate > with something sharp-pointed > transfix through-driveOE through-nimc1275 stickc1330 through-piercec1330 to stick througha1382 preenc1390 spitc1430 thirlc1450 broacha1470 prickc1475 to stick up1528 transfix1590 fix1638 bestick1667 impalea1678 spiculate1835 skewer1837 to strike through1893 a1678 A. Marvell Soul & Body in Misc. Poems (1681) 13 This Tyrannic soul, Which, stretcht upright, impales me so. 1807 R. Wilson Jrnl. 27 Aug. in Life Gen. Sir R. Wilson (1862) II. 363 The falcon often impales himself on the long and sharp beak [of the heron]. 1878 S. Smiles Robert Dick v. 45 Impaling it with a pin. c. figurative. To transfix (a person) with one's gaze. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (transitive)] > stare or gaze at > in the face to look (a person, etc.) in the facec1400 to stare (a person) in the face1510 to fix (a person) with one's eyes1792 envisage1820 fasten1870 impale1877 1877 My Mother-in-Law vi. 60 Mrs. Pinkerton devoted herself to impaling me with her eyes once in a while. 1903 Critic (N.Y.) Oct. 349/2 There was an impaling fierceness in his eyes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1530
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