Meaning of empanoply | Babel Free

Definitions

To dress in a full suit of armour; to panoply.

British, also, figuratively, historical, transitive

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Examples

“I see, I see, empanoply'd in arms, / (Rapt with prophetic fire, sage Chiron cried), / O'er Phrygian plains wide hurling war's alarms, / Thy son, O Thetis, rise, his country's pride.”

“The grand conglomerate hills of Araby, / That stand empanoplied in utmost thought, / With dazzling ramparts front the Indian sea, / Down there in Hadramaut.”

“High hope / Empanoplies the soul. Bright faith / Meets and o'ercomes the victor death, / And trusts the future's grander scope.”

“It didn't appear to Herbert, however, that Mrs. Brooks exhibited any extravagant joy over the occurrence, and she almost instantly retired with her daughter into the sitting-room, linking her arm in Cherry's, and, as it were, empanoplying her with own invulnerable shawl.”

“Do not interrupt; a truce to your raillery! It will fall blunted, besides, on the cuirass of an invulnerable will, in which henceforth I am empanoplied.”

“Oh, lovely are her [Paddington Station's] lean lines, and lovely her poise, / Empanoplying the long, dim frenzy of noise.”

“He was marvelling anew, no doubt, as he was presently to express it to the tribunal, that Satan should be permitted so admirably and deceptively to empanoply his servants.”

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