imparl
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "These requests and persuasions by Hersilia, and other the Sabine women being heard, both the armies stayed, and held every body his hand, and straight the two generals imparled together, during which parle they brought their husbands and their children, to their fathers and their bretheren."
- "c. 1767, George Cooke, quoted in William Blackstone, The Oxford Edition of Blackstone - Commentaries on the Laws of England: Book II: Of the right of things, edited by Simon Stern, Oxford University Press (2016), →ISBN, page 368 (appendix). And the aforesaid Francis thereupon craveth leave to imparl; and he hath it."
Etymology
Ultimately from Old French emparler.
Origin
- Source language: Old French
Word Breakdown
- Root: emparler