Empurpled

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Empurple \Em*pur"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Empurpled}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Empurpling}.] [Pref. em- + purple. Cf. {Impurple}.]
     To tinge or dye of a purple color; to color with purple; to
     impurple. "The deep empurpled ran." --Philips.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  empurpled
       adj : excessively elaborate or showily expressed; "a writer of
             empurpled literature"; "many purple passages"; "speech
             embellished with classical quotations"; "an
             over-embellished story of the fish that got away" [syn:
              {embellished}, {over-embellished}, {purple}]
       n : a chromatic color between red and blue [syn: {purple}, {purpleness}]