impaint

English

Etymology

From im- +‎ paint?

Verb

impaint (third-person singular simple present impaints, present participle impainting, simple past and past participle impainted)

1. (obsolete, transitive, figurative) To paint; to decorate with colours.
   • c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

     to impaint his cause

References

• “impaint”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• timpani