† emˈpight, v. Obs.
Also 4 enpight.
[The pa. tense and pa. pple. of *empitch, f. en- + pitch v.]
1. trans. Fixed in, implanted.
| c 1400 Test. Love i. (1560) 273 b/2 In you is so mokel werking vertues enpight. 1596 Spenser F.Q. iii. v. 20 Exceeding griefe that wound in him empight. 1642 H. More Song of Soul ii. iii. ii. xlv, Nothing is empight In it. 1746 W. Thompson Hymn to May [an imitation of Spenser] xliii, Full suddenly the seeds of joy recure Elastic spring, and force within empight. 1721–1800 in Bailey. 1847 in Craig; and in mod. Dicts. |
2. intr. for refl.
| 1596 Spenser F.Q. ii. iv. 46 He..ere it empight In the meant marke, advaunst his shield atween. |