impierce

English

Alternative forms

• impearce

Etymology

From im- +‎ pierce. Compare empierce.

Verb

impierce (third-person singular simple present impierces, present participle impiercing, simple past and past participle impierced)

1. (obsolete) To pierce; to penetrate.
   • 1612, Arthur Gorges, The Olympian Catastrophe‎^[1]:

     Or humane harts more inlye to impearce

   • 1622, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 22 p. 28:

     The brinish teares drop’d downe, on mine impearced breast,

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “impierce”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• epimeric