impregn
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Etymology edit
From Middle French imprégner, from Old French enpreignier.
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impregn (third-person singular simple present impregns, present participle impregning, simple past and past participle impregned)
- (now rare, poetic) To impregnate; to make fruitful.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- his perswasive words, impregn’d
With Reason
- 1642, Henry More, The Life of the Soul:
- Semele doth Bacchus bear / Impregned of Jove.
- 1727, James Thomson, “Summer”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:
- Th' unfruitful rock, itself impregn'd by thee, / In dark retirement forms the lucid stone.