empt

English

Verb

empt (third-person singular simple present empts, present participle empting, simple past and past participle empted)

1. (obsolete) To empty.
   • 1705, A Collection of State Tracts, Publish'd on Occasion of the Late Revolution in 1688, page 653:

     Because under all the Obligations and Causes herein, the Church ought to empt the Sees of such Incumbents, that are dangerous to the Civil State, by Acts of Separation properly Ecclesiastical, and so it doth; the Dean and Chapter of the Metropolitical Church taking the Jurisdiction, till the Chapter elect, and Bishops consecrate another, &c.

   • 1831, Henry Cotton, A Typographical Gazetteer - Page 1, Issue 214, page 171:

     or, still un-happier, has it gone the way of every copy of its elder brother the Mentz Donatus, of which scarcely a fragment, a ci gít, remains to bless the eyes and empt the pockets of the curious and " keen collector ?."

   • 1838, William Hone, The Every-day Book and Table Book, page 996:

     As quick as thought they empt' the well, And the last comers take a spell, At waiting, while the others go, With their full pitchers, dawdling so, You'd think they'd nothing else to do Butto keep looking round at you.

   • 1844, Homerus (Thomas Hobbes, trans.), “The Iliads and Odysses of Homer, page 501:

     Lo, here's a gift I'll give him, that he may Bestow it, if't please him, on him or her That empts the chamber-pots, or giv't away To any of Ulysses' bondmen here.

See also

• pre-empt

Anagrams

• EMT-P, PETM, Temp., temp, temp.

Middle English

Noun

empt

1. Alternative form of ampte