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Completely armed; panoplied. Tennyson.

Same as Imparadise.

To make a park of; to inclose, as with a fence; to impark. [Obs.]

Parley; imparlance. [Obs.] Spenser.

A perfumed powder sprinkled upon the body to mask the odor of sweat.

To move with passion; to affect strongly. See Impassion. [Obs.] Those sights empassion me full near. Spenser.

Strongly affected. [Obs.] The Briton Prince was sore empassionate. Spenser.

To put in pawn; to pledge; to impawn. To sell, empawn, and alienate the estates. Milman.

To hinder. See Impeach. [Obs.] Spenser.

To form like pearls; to decorate with, or as with, pearls; to impearl.

orm into a people or community; to inhabit; to people. [Obs.] We now know 't is very well empeopled. Sir T. Browne.

See Empress. [Obs.]

An empress. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To put in peril. See Imperil. Spenser.

Perished; decayed. [Obs.] I deem thy brain emperished be. Spenser.

The sovereign or supreme monarch of an empire; -- a title of dignity superior to that of king; as, the emperor of Germany or of Austria; the emperor or Czar of Russia. Emperor goose (Zoöl.), a large and handsome goose (Philacte canagica), found in Alaska. -- Emperor moth (Zoöl.), one of several large and beautiful bom…

The rank or office of an emperor.

Empire; sovereignty; dominion. [Archaic] Shak. Struggling for my woman's empery. Mrs. Browning.

signification the speaker intends to impress specially upon his audience. The province of emphasis is so much more important than accent, that the customary seat of the latter is changed, when the claims of emphasis require it. E. Porter.

To utter or pronounce with a particular stress of voice; to make emphatic; as, to emphasize a word or a phrase.