[f. as prec. + -ER.] One who empoisons. Obs. or arch.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Pard. T., 566. Thus ended … the false empoysonere.
a. 1577. Sir T. Smith, Commw. Eng. (1609), 96. Impoysoners … shall bee boyled to the death.
1600. O. E., Repl. Libel, I. v. 99. The father of all … murderers, empoisoners, and enemies to this state.
1622. Bacon, Hen. VII., 2. The Impoisoner of his Wife.
1650. Weldon, Crt. Jas. I. (1651), 65. They preferred Empoysoners to be servants to Sir Gervase Elwayes.
1829. Landor, Imag. Conv. (1846), II. 234. We live among … empoisoners.
fig. 1579. Tomson, Calvin’s Serm. Tim., 810/2. A naughtie and wicked man that goeth about to sowe peruerse doctrine,… what is hee els, but an impoisoner?
1653. Gauden, Hierasp., 412. The divels Empericks and empoisoners.
