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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
impest .
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Examples
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The legislatures, the courts, the executive officers, all the sources of authority and springs of control, were defiled and impested until right and justice fled affrighted from the land, and the name of the country became a stench in the nostrils of the world.
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1 Ambrose Bierce 1878
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The republican New World is no less impested with servility than the monarchial Old. One form of government may be better than another for this purpose or for that; all are alike in the futility of their influence upon human character.
The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 Ambrose Bierce 1878
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The _Exercitia_, the Constitutions, and the Letter to the Portuguese Jesuits, all of which undoubtedly explain Loyola's views, reveal to us the essence of historical Jesuitry, the _fons et origo_ of that long-continued evil which impested modern society.
Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction John Addington Symonds 1866
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