Meaning of empanoply | Babel Free

Definitions

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

British, also, figuratively, historical, transitive

Equivalents

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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