ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED1.] That is made or turned purple; reddened.
1708. J. Philips, Cyder (1807), 60. Down rain th’ impurpled balls, ambrosial fruit.
1790–1813. A. Wilson, Sheph. Dream, Poet. Wks. 11. Bleaters, nibbling o’er th’ empurpled plain.
18[?]. Macaulay, Ivry. We thought of Seine’s empurpled flood.
b. Clad in or covered with purple. Also fig.
1860. T. Martin, Horace, 55. Barbaric monarchs’ mothers, and empurpled tyrants fear.
1878. Masque Poets, 30. The empurpled ease Of her Greek couch.
