impasture

English

Etymology

From im- +‎ pasture.

Verb

impasture (third-person singular simple present impastures, present participle impasturing, simple past and past participle impastured) (archaic, transitive)

1. To place in a pasture
2. to foster.
   • 1618, Thomas Adams, The Diuells Banket:

     Adulterie […] impastures griefe in his [man's] heart

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “impasture”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• marsupite, septarium