impaint

To paint; to decorate with colours.

Verb

  1. To paint; to decorate with colours.
    • to impaint his cause - c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard,...

Origin

From im- + paint?

Forms

impaints impainting impainted