empoisonment

English

Etymology

French empoisonnement.

Noun

empoisonment (countable and uncountable, plural empoisonments)

1. (archaic) poisoning
   • c. 1616, Francis Bacon, letter to the King

     questions touching the empoisonment

References

• “empoisonment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.