empoisonment
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From empoison + -ment.[1] Compare French empoisonnement.
Noun
empoisonment (countable and uncountable, plural empoisonments)
- (archaic) poisoning
- c. 1616, Francis Bacon, letter to the King
- questions touching the empoisonment
- c. 1616, Francis Bacon, letter to the King
References
- “empoisonment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- ^ “empoisonment, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
