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Empaled

Empale \Em*pale"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Empaled; p. pr. & vb. n. Empaling.] [OF. empaler to palisade, pierce, F. empaler to punish by empalement; pref. em- (L. in) + OF. & F. pal a pale, stake. See Pale a stake, and cf. Impale.] [Written also impale.]

  1. To fence or fortify with stakes; to surround with a line of stakes for defense; to impale.

    All that dwell near enemies empale villages, to save themselves from surprise.
    --Sir W. Raleigh.

  2. To inclose; to surround. See Impale.

  3. To put to death by thrusting a sharpened stake through the body.

  4. (Her.) Same as Impale.

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empaled

vb. (en-past of: empale)

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Martin adds, what even the horrors of Oriental warfare will scarcely permit us to credit, that she was exposed by Sapor on a public scaffold to the brutal lusts of his soldiery, and afterwards empaled, iii.