Empoison Definition
ĕm-poizən
empoisons
verb
To make poisonous; taint or corrupt.
Webster's New World
To embitter; envenom.
Webster's New World
To poison.
American Heritage
1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, X, lxv.
She, with sweet words and false enticing smiles,Infused love among the dainties set,
And with empoison'd cups our souls beguiles,And made each knight himself and God forget.
Wiktionary
1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.13.
In Cæsars civill warres, Lutius Domitius taken in Prussia, having empoysoned himselfe, did afterward rue and repent his deede.
Wiktionary
noun
(obsolete) Poison.
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Origin of Empoison
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From Middle French empoisonner, from poison.
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