empurpled
AdjectiveOpen English WordNet
Adjective (1)
- excessively elaborate or showily expressed“a writer of empurpled literature”“many purple passages”“an over-embellished story of the fish that got away”Synonyms: over-embellishedpurpleOpposite unrhetoricalSimilar rhetorical
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
“empurpled” is listed under Empurple.
Em·pur′ple transitive verb [past tense & past participle Empurpled; present participle & verbal noun Empurpling.]
Origin: Pref. em- + purple. Cf. Impurple.
To tinge or dye of a purple color; to color with purple; to impurple. “The deep empurpled ran.” Ambrose Philips
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54