[f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of the vb. EMPOISON.

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c. 1374.  Chaucer, Boeth., I. iii. 206. Þe empoysenyng of Socrates.

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1494.  Fabyan, VII. 322. He dyed at Swynyshede … by the enpoysonynge of a munke of the same house.

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1527.  Andrew, Brunswyke’s Distyll. Waters, A iij b. Columbyne water … is good for impoysyning.

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a. 1569.  Kingesmyll, Confl. Satan (1578). 7. The deedes of the flesh are … impoisonings.

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1678.  Wanley, Wond. Lit. World, V. ii. § 80. 472/2. He bribed the Bishop of Rome to the empoysoning of his brother Zemes.

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1681.  Roxb. Ball. (1883), IV. 655. From secret Impoysonings … Libera nos, Domine.

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