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Definition of Impaling
1. impale [v] - See also: impale
Lexicographical Neighbors of Impaling
Literary usage of Impaling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1822)
"Butler, impaling Cavanagh—Argent, a lion passant, and in base two ... Lock-
hart—Argent, a man's heart proper within a padlock Sable, impaling Wharton. ..."
2. Delineations of Fonthill and Its Abbey. by John Rutter (1823)
"BUTLER impaling Mac Carthy. ORMOND and BUTLER impaling Butler. BUTLER impaling
Poyntz. ... BECKFORD quartering Hamilton and Arran, and impaling Gordon. ..."
3. Gentleman's Magazine Library edited by George Laurence Gomme, Frank Alexander Milne, Lady A C Bickley, Mrs Alice Bertha Merck Gomme (1901)
"Ormond and Butler, impaling Darcy—Azure, seme"e of cross ... Butler, impaling
Cavanagh—Argent, a lion passant, and in base two crescents gules. 9. ..."
4. Diary of the Marches of the Royal Army During the Great Civil War by Richard Symonds, Charles Edward Long (1859)
"HUNGERFORD ; impaling, Argent, on a cross gules five escallops or ... HUNGERFORD;
impaling, Gule.s, on a chevron or three eagles displayed sable ..."
5. The Antiquarian (1871)
"A bend between two frets," for Despenser, impaling Burghersh.* 4. ... Neville
impaling Plantagenet.JÍ l. Percy. 3. Percy and Lucy impaling Neville. ..."
6. Sussex Archaeological Collections Relating to the History and Antiquities of by Sussex Archaeological Society (1858)
"The projecting arch, which was the centre, has its frieze defective; but there
remain on its eastern half:—1, Covert, impaling "... a crescent and a chief ..."
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