impest

From im- +‎ pest.

impest (third-person singular simple present impests, present participle impesting, simple past and past participle impested)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To afflict with pestilence, in most cases the bubonic plague.
2. (obsolete, figurative) To plague

• “impest”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.