empight
English
Etymology
From em- + pight (“pitched, fixed”).
Adjective
empight (not comparable)
- (obsolete, poetic) fixed; settled, placed or fastened
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- The wicked steele stayd not till it did light
In his left thigh, and deepely did it thrill;
Exceeding griefe that wound in him empight
References
- “empight”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.