empierce
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[edit]Verb
[edit]empierce (third-person singular simple present empierces, present participle empiercing, simple past and past participle empierced)
- (now rare) To pierce through.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- The weapon bright / Taking aduantage of his open iaw, / Ran through his mouth with so importune might, / That deepe emperst his darksome hollow maw [...].