impest

English

Etymology

From im- +‎ pest.

Verb

impest (third-person singular simple present impests, present participle impesting, simple past and past participle impested)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To afflict with pestilence.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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