empt
/ˈɛmpt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.34 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Because under all the Obligations and Causes herein, the Church ought to empt the Sees of such Incumbents, that are dangerous to the Civil State, by Acts of Separation properly Ecclesiastical, and so it doth; the Dean and Chapter of the Metropolitical Church taking the Jurisdiction, till the Chapter elect, and Bishops consecrate another, &c."
- "or, still un-happier, has it gone the way of every copy of its elder brother the Mentz Donatus, of which scarcely a fragment, a ci gít, remains to bless the eyes and empt the pockets of the curious and " keen collector ?.""
- "As quick as thought they empt' the well, And the last comers take a spell, At waiting, while the others go, With their full pitchers, dawdling so, You'd think they'd nothing else to do Butto keep looking round at you."
- "Lo, here's a gift I'll give him, that he may Bestow it, if't please him, on him or her That empts the chamber-pots, or giv't away To any of Ulysses' bondmen here."