impaint
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Verb[edit]
impaint (third-person singular simple present impaints, present participle impainting, simple past and past participle impainted)
- (obsolete, transitive, figurative) To paint; to decorate with colours.
- c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
- to impaint his cause
References[edit]
- “impaint”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.