impledge

English

Etymology

From im- +‎ pledge.

Verb

impledge (third-person singular simple present impledges, present participle impledging, simple past and past participle impledged)

  1. (archaic) To pledge.
    • 1815, Lord of the Isles, Walter Scott, Canto I:
      Think'st thou, amid this ample round,
      A single brow but thine has frown'd,
      To sadden this auspicious morn,
      That bids the daughter of high Lorn
      Impledge her spousal faith to wed
      The Heir of mighty Somerled;

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “impledge”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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