Empanoply
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To dress in a full suit of armour; to panoply. British, also, figuratively, historical, transitive
"I see, I see, empanoply'd in arms, / (Rapt with prophetic fire, sage Chiron cried), / O'er Phrygian plains wide hurling war's alarms, / Thy son, O Thetis, rise, his country's pride."
Example
More examples"I see, I see, empanoply'd in arms, / (Rapt with prophetic fire, sage Chiron cried), / O'er Phrygian plains wide hurling war's alarms, / Thy son, O Thetis, rise, his country's pride."
Etymology
From em- (prefix meaning ‘on, onto; covered’) + panoply (“complete set of armour”); panoply is derived from Ancient Greek πᾰνοπλῐ́ᾱ (pănoplĭ́ā, “suit of armour”), from πάνοπλος (pánoplos, “in full armour”) (from παν- (pan-, prefix meaning ‘all, every’) + ὅπλον (hóplon, “armour; arms, weapons”)) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, suffix forming feminine abstract nouns).
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