| 单词 |
empest |
| 释义 |
empest, impest, v.|ɪmˈpɛst|
[ad. F. empeste-r (Montaigne, 16th c.), f. em- = im-1 + peste pest, plague: with substitution of L. im-.]
trans. To infect with a plague or pestilence. Also fig. Hence impeˈstation, the action of impesting.
a1618Sylvester Honour's Fare-well 50 A Soule devested Of worldly Pomp (which hath the World impested). 1655H. Lestrange K. Charles 7 London being..empested with a..furious contagion. a1748C. Pitt Epistles, Imit. Spenser (1810), Ne bitter dole impest the passing gale. 1808J. Barlow Columb. vi. 36 See the black Prison Ship's expanding womb Impested thousands, quick and dead, entomb. 1844B. G. Babington tr. Hecker's Epidemics Mid. Ages 233 The same attempt at impestation had been already often made in earlier times. 1884Med. Times 19 July 99/2 Hospitalism spared the Calcutta Medical College Hospital during Dr. Mouat's incumbency and impested it in mine. 1923A. Huxley Antic Hay v. 76 When two or three are gathered together..they..necessarily empest the air. |
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