What is "imployed"

Usage examples of "imployed".

They do all unanimously report that he did constantly affirme that he was imployed by the King of Great Brittain and did act by his commission.

Hee aggravates the business as much as hee can to the prejudice of my Master to value his owne service the more, and they seeme here to wonder that the King my Master should have imployed or countenanced a man that had so base a design against the King's Person, I had a great deal of discourse with Monsieur about it, but I did positively say that he had noe relation to my knowledge to the King my Master, and if he should have I make a question or noe whither in this case the King will owne him.

There was also another very surprising circumstance about her, agreeable to what we have not only Read in several Histories concerning the Imps that have been Imployed in Witchcraft.

And men, that are otherwise imployed, then to search into their causes, know not of themselves, what to call them.