Obs. rare–1. [a. OF. empirement deterioration, f. empirer to make worse; cf. EMPYRE v. and -MENT.] The action of getting worse, of ‘breaking up’ physically.
1674. in T. Flatman’s Poems, To Flatman. ii. a 1 b.
| Domestique care, the minds incurable disease, | |
| That (till the last Emperiment) expects no ease. |
