empight

English

Etymology

From em- +‎ pight (“pitched, fixed”).

Adjective

empight (not comparable)

1. (obsolete, poetic) fixed; settled, placed or fastened
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     The wicked steele stayd not till it did light
     In his left thigh, and deepely did it thrill;
     Exceeding griefe that wound in him empight

References

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