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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of empoison.

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Examples

  • But her mind was soon empoisoned with a jealousy of more permanent seriousness; in less than a month after the residence of Camilla at

    Camilla 2008

  • On the contrary, is it not proved by experience that the satisfaction of having subdued them is a thousand times greater than the pleasure of yielding to them? — a pleasure always empoisoned, a pleasure leading to woe.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • TAFF (strick struck strangling like aleal lusky Lubliner to merum-ber by the cycl of the cruize who strungled Attahilloupa with what empoisoned El Monte de Zuma and failing wilnaynilnay that he was pallups barn in the minkst of the Krumlin befodt he was pop-soused into the monkst of the vatercan, makes the holypolygon of the emt on the greaseshaper, a little farther, a little soon, a lettera - cettera, oukraydoubray).

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • The passion of revenge, which had in part stimulated her to the commission of this atrocious deed, died, even at the moment when it was gratified, and left her to the horrors of unavailing pity and remorse, which would probably have empoisoned all the years she had promised herself with the Marquis de Villeroi, had her expectations of an alliance with him been realized.

    The Mysteries of Udolpho 2004

  • After that was the son of Elphy chosen to be soldan, and clept him Melechasseraff, and he took the city of Akon and chased out the Christian men; and this was also empoisoned, and then was his brother made soldan, and was clept Melechnasser.

    The Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And after, was this soldan empoisoned at Damascus, and his son thought to reign after him by heritage, and made him to be clept Melechsache; but another that had to name Elphy, chased him out of the country and made him soldan.

    The Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Devadatta,17 trying with empoisoned claws to injure Buddha, went down alive into hell.

    A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms 2003

  • The air is empoisoned, and each human being inhales death, even while in youth and health, their hopes are in the flower.

    The Last Man 2003

  • Providence from the venom by which the finest form in others is empoisoned.

    Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. Being secret memoirs of Madame Du Hausset, lady's maid to Madame de Pompadour, and of the Princess Lamballe — Complete Mme. Du Hausset

  • Providence from the venom by which the finest form in others is empoisoned.

    Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. Being secret memoirs of Madame Du Hausset, lady's maid to Madame de Pompadour, and of the Princess Lamballe — Volume 7 Mme. Du Hausset

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