impierce

To pierce; to penetrate.

Verb

  1. To pierce; to penetrate.
    • Or humane harts more inlye to impearce - 1612, Arthur Gorges, The Olympian Catastrophe:
    • The brinish teares drop’d downe, on mine impearced breast, - 1622, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 22 p. 28:

Origin

From im- + pierce. Compare empierce.

Forms

impierces impiercing impierced impearce