Definition for IM-PUR'PLE

IM-PUR'PLE, v.t. [in and purple. Fr. empourprer.]

To color or tinge with purple; to make red or reddish; as, a field impurpled with blood. The bright / Pavement, that like a sea of jasper shone, / Impurpled with celestial roses, smil'd. Milton.

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