impalm
English
editEtymology
editVerb
editimpalm (third-person singular simple present impalms, present participle impalming, simple past and past participle impalmed)
- (transitive) To grasp or hold in the hand.
- 1807, Joel Barlow, The Columbiad:
- Nature herself ( whose grasp of time and place
Deals out duration and impalms all space )
References
edit- “impalm”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.