Meaning of empoison | Babel Free

Definitions

To poison.

Examples

“And therfore who someuer dyned or feested syre Gawayne wold comynly purueye for good fruyte for hym / and soo dyd the quene for to please⟳ sir Gawayne / she lete purueye for hym al maner of fruyte /[…]/ and this Pyonel hated syre Gawayne[…]for pure enuy & hate⟳ sir Pyonel enpoysond certayn appels for to enpoysonne sir Gawayn”

“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⟳.”

“In Cæsars civill warres, Lutius Domitius taken in Prussia, having empoysoned himselfe, did afterward rue and repent his deede.”

“Shooting somebody, empoisoning him or hanging him give⟳ quite often more or less the same results.”

“Mag and Maureen do not represent⟳ an idealized, sentimentalized mother-and-child relationship; they are two unhappy, malignant harpies tearing and empoisoning each other.”

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