imparl
English edit
Etymology edit
Ultimately from Old French emparler. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Verb edit
imparl (third-person singular simple present imparls, present participle imparling, simple past and past participle imparled)
- (obsolete) To hold discourse; to parley.
- 1579-1603, Thomas North, Plutarch's Lives:
- These requests and persuasions by Hersilia, and other the Sabine women being heard, both the armies stayed, and held every body his hand, and straight the two generals imparled together, during which parle they brought their husbands and their children, to their fathers and their bretheren.
- (law) To have time before pleading; to have delay for mutual adjustment.
- c. 1767, George Cooke, quoted in William Blackstone, The Oxford Edition of Blackstone - Commentaries on the Laws of England: Book II: Of the right of things, edited by Simon Stern, Oxford University Press (2016), →ISBN, page 368 (appendix).
- And the aforesaid Francis thereupon craveth leave to imparl; and he hath it.
- c. 1767, George Cooke, quoted in William Blackstone, The Oxford Edition of Blackstone - Commentaries on the Laws of England: Book II: Of the right of things, edited by Simon Stern, Oxford University Press (2016), →ISBN, page 368 (appendix).
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “imparl”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)