Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PAM'PER, v.t. [from It. pambere, bread and drink; pamberato, pampered, well fed; pane, bread, and bere, to drink, L. bibo.]

1. To feed to the full; to glut; to saginate; to feed luxuriously; as, to pamper the body or the appetite. – Spenser. We are proud of a body fattening for worms and pampered for corruption and the grave. – Dwight.
2. To gratify to the full; to furnish with that which delights; as, to pamper the imagination.