ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED1.]
† 1. Killed by poison; poisoned. Obs.
1615. G. Sandys, Trav., IV. 307. The death of her impoisoned husband.
1616. Overbury’s Vis., in Harl. Misc. (Malh.), III. 347. The pains of my impoison’d ghost.
2. Steeped in, impregnated or tainted with, poison; poisonous, envenomed. lit. and fig.
1598. Chapman, Iliad, IV. 70. Impoysoned strokes His wounding thunder shall imprint.
1601. Holland, Pliny, I. 144. These Arabians … shooting their empoysoned arrowes, practise pyracie.
1678. Wanley, Wond. Lit. World, V. i. § 70. 465/2. A pair of empoysoned Gloves … procured his death.
a. 1711. Ken, Hymnotheo, Poet. Wks. 1721, III. 318. On Earth uncurs’d no Plants empoyson’d grew.
1799. J. Corry, Sat. View Lond. (1803), 162. Suppose … you discovered a combination of assassins, ready to lift their empoisoned stillettos against your hearts; would you not shrink?
1883. J. Parker, Tyne Chylde, 145. The serpent … shows its empoisoned fang.
