emplead

English

Etymology

From en- +‎ plead: compare Old French emplaidier (en- + plaidier).

Verb

emplead (third-person singular simple present empleads, present participle empleading, simple past and past participle empleaded)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To accuse; to indict.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “emplead”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Spanish

Verb

emplead

  1. second-person plural imperative of emplear
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