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Definition of Empoisoning
1. empoison [v] - See also: empoison
Lexicographical Neighbors of Empoisoning
Literary usage of Empoisoning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"Ai lang's I get employment. . S. Here's to thy health, t tho' fatigu'd wi' close
employment, . The Twa Dogs. 16. empoisoning. ..."
2. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury (1903)
"... Wroot never in no canon, ne in no fen, Mo wonder signes of empoisoning 891
Than hadde thise ..."
3. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"But certes I suppose that Avicenne Wrote never in no canon, ne in no fenne, Mo
wonder signes of empoisoning, Than had thine ..."
4. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... and sunk me to a shade, Spite of myself the still-empoisoning dart Shoots
through ray blood, and drinks up all my My vows ami wishes wildly disagree, ..."
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