empierce

English

Etymology

From em- +‎ pierce.

Verb

empierce (third-person singular simple present empierces, present participle empiercing, simple past and past participle empierced)

1. (archaic) To pierce through.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     The weapon bright / Taking aduantage of his open iaw, / Ran through his mouth with so importune might, / That deepe emperst his darksome hollow maw [...].

Derived terms

• empiercement