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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
emprise .
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Examples
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How a damosel came into the court and desired a knight to take on him an enquest, which La Cote Male Taile emprised.
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How a damosel came into the court and desired a knight to take on him an enquest, which La Cote Male Taile emprised.
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How a damosel came into the court and desired a knight to take on him an enquest, which La Cote Male Taile emprised Chap. ii.
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And after this, Jesu Christ appeared to her with a great multitude of angels and virgins, and said to her: Daughter, know thy maker, for whom thou hast emprised this travailous battle; be thou constant, for I am with thee.
The Golden Legend, vol. 7 1230-1298 1900
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And the bishop emprised to say them, and when he had said half of them he made him ready to continue forth and say the other.
The Golden Legend, vol. 6 1230-1298 1900
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Great things then he emprised, and that may we see when he took upon him to convert so great a city as was Antioch.
The Golden Legend, vol. 3 1230-1298 1900
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I pray thee that thou leave this madness that thou hast emprised, and that I may have thee with me as my son.
The Golden Legend, vol. 3 1230-1298 1900
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And forthwith four knights took their counsel together and thought they would do to the king a pleasure, and emprised to slay S. Thomas, and suddenly departed and took their shipping towards England.
The Golden Legend, vol. 2 1230-1298 1900
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That like as they had emprised by their pride to make the tower unto heaven which ceased by confusion of tongues that were changed, all in like wise the apostles made a tower of sciences of tongues, and nothing of stones but of virtues, by the which all that believe shall mount up into heaven.
The Golden Legend, vol. 5 1230-1298 1900
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And he said: I am of another law, and make request that I may have a temple for myself; for I have emprised many travails for the common profit of Rome, and therefore I ought not to be warned of my petition.
The Golden Legend, vol. 5 1230-1298 1900
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