Hypertext Webster Gateway: "empurpled"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Empurple \Em*pur"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Empurpled}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Empurpling}.] [Pref. em- + purple. Cf. {Impurple}.]
To tinge or dye of a purple color; to color with purple; to
impurple. ``The deep empurpled ran.'' --Philips.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
empurpled
adj 1: excessively elaborate or showily expressed; "a writer of
empurpled literature"; "many purple passages"; "speech
embellished with classical quotations"; "an
over-embellished story of the fish that got away"
[syn: {embellished}, {over-embellished}, {purple}]
2: made purple especially as with suffused blood; "empurpled
with rage"; "purple with suppressed anger" [syn: {purple}]
n : a chromatic color between red and blue [syn: {purple}, {purpleness}]
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