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empoisoner (s.xii1/3)
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empoisoner (s.xii1/3)

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empoisener,  empoisuner;  emposener,  emposoner;  empuisuner,  empusuner;  enpoesunner,  enpoisoner,  enposoner,  enpuissuner,  enpuisuner,  enpusoner,  enpussoner,  enpusuner  
  FEW:  potio 9,257b Gdf:  empoisonner 3,67c GdfC:  empoisoner 9,444c TL: empoisoner 3,124 DEAF:  poison (apoisoner)  / poison (empoisoner)  DMF:  empoisonner  TLF:  empoisonner  OED:  empoison v.  MED:  empoisounen v.  DMLBS: ∅

v.trans.

to poison, kill or harm by means of poison: 
( s.xii1/3; MS: s.xiii2 )  Qui ceste pere portera, Nen ardrat ne ne neiera, [...] Ne enpuisuné ne sera  Lapid 226.661
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Issi firent lur covenant: Paschent de mil livres duner E cil del rei empuisuner  Brut WACE 8250
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  Kar u il le eust enpuissuné U par mal art, u par sort  S Clem ANTS 4710
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xivin )  par venim l’empusuna  Brut Royal 4910
( c.1275; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  il out mys un hum a mort, e ke il le aveyt enpusoné  S Fran ANTS 7692

sbst. inf.

poisoning: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  […] nen suy le primer Des roys qe sunt mortz par enpoisoner  Rom Chev ANTS 7935

See also:

apoisoner  poisuner 
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