Empt

verb

verb ·1 syllable ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To empty. obsolete

    "Because under all the Obligations and Causes herein, the Church ought to empt the Sees of such Incumbents, that are dangerous to the Civil State, by Acts of Separation properly Ecclesiastical, and so it doth; the Dean and Chapter of the Metropolitical Church taking the Jurisdiction, till the Chapter elect, and Bishops consecrate another, &c."

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"Because under all the Obligations and Causes herein, the Church ought to empt the Sees of such Incumbents, that are dangerous to the Civil State, by Acts of Separation properly Ecclesiastical, and so it doth; the Dean and Chapter of the Metropolitical Church taking the Jurisdiction, till the Chapter elect, and Bishops consecrate another, &c."

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