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Definition of Empurpled
1. Adjective. Excessively elaborate or showily expressed. "An over-embellished story of the fish that got away"
Definition of Empurpled
1. Verb. (past of empurple) ¹
2. Adjective. made purple, especially having a purple complexion because of rage etc. ¹
3. Adjective. (context: of a text) over-embellished or flowery ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Empurpled
1. empurple [v] - See also: empurple
Lexicographical Neighbors of Empurpled
Literary usage of Empurpled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Epigrams of Martial by Martial (1890)
""Whom Betis ever clothes, or motley grey Yon sallow lover of the sad array, Who
none, in scarlet, can esteem as men; Who all, empurpled, would with females ..."
2. Notes to Palgrave's Golden Treasury of Songs & Lyrics. Books I-IV. by John Henry Fowler (1904)
"Cp. Spenser, Faerie Queene, III. vii., "Oft from the forest wildings he did bring,
Whose sides empurpled were with smiling red.". No. CXXIV. ..."
3. The Lusiad: An Epic Poem by Luís de Camões, Thomas Moore Musgrave (1826)
"... Return'd:—a rich empurpled scarlet robe, Of glowing hue, and a luxuriant
branch *6 Of purest coral, that beneath the waves Spreads its soft shoots, ..."
4. Poetical Works of the Late Thomas Warton by Thomas Warton, Richard Mant (1802)
"—the date-empurpled palm,] The word ... which may, literally, and with beauty,
be rendered " flower-empurpled ..."
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