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verb
Empale  v. t.  To make pale. (Obs.) "No bloodless malady empales their face."


Empale  v. t.  (past & past part. empaled; pres. part. empaling)  (Written also impale)  
1.
To fence or fortify with stakes; to surround with a line of stakes for defense; to impale. "All that dwell near enemies empale villages, to save themselves from surprise."
2.
To inclose; to surround. See Impale.
3.
To put to death by thrusting a sharpened stake through the body.
4.
(Her.) Same as Impale.





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"Empale" Quotes from Famous Books



... which, such as are planted in copses, and for ample woods, are sufficiently defended by the mounds and their closer order; especially, if they rise of seeds: But where they are expos'd in single rows, as in walks and avenues, the most effectual course is to empale them with three good quartet-stakes of competent length, set in triangle, and made fast to one another by short pieces above and beneath; in which a few brambles being stuck, secure it abundantly without that choaking or fretting, to which trees are obnoxious that are only single staked ...
— Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) - Or A Discourse of Forest Trees • John Evelyn
... for her to say it," said Anne, promptly deciding upon which horn of this dilemma to empale herself. "It isn't right for anybody to take that name in vain or speak it lightly, Davy. Don't ever do ...
— Anne Of The Island • Lucy Maud Montgomery


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